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Expanded entry on Novak, in part to replace material taken out of entry on him on the AEI page
"Mr. Novak began his teaching career as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. In 1976 he accepted a tenured chair at Syracuse University, before joining the American Enterprise Institute as a research scholar in 1978. Mr. Novak has received numerous awards, including the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (1994), as well as more than a dozen honorary degrees, both here and abroad."
Novak has written extensively on Catholic issues. Earlier in his career,
he advocated liberalizing the Church's rules on birth control in such
works as "The Experience of Marriage", and the original edition of
"Confessions of a Catholic". Since then he has changed his mind,
and now defends the teaching of Pope John Paul II on the subject.
More recently, he has argued for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq on
"just war" principles, against the Pope's opposition to the war.
Novak also wrote extensive criticisms of liberation theology in the 1980s.
Recent short works of his published by the American Enterprise Institute
include apologetics for intellectual property laws and CEO compensation
(funded in part by the drug company Pfizer), and arguments for the
Christian roots of the United States.
Novak is a member of the [[Mont Pelerin Society]].
He has a web site
at http://www.michaelnovak.net/
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