On Two Wings
Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
Tuesday, December 04, 2001 | 5:30 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, twelfth floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event
The American Republic took flight on two wings: not only on the reason of the Enlightenment but also on faith in the God of the ancient Hebrews, the God of liberty. In On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding (Encounter Books, 2001), author Michael Novak explores these two influences that propelled the founding. Not only was the American tradition influenced by the faith of the founders, he writes, but even the philosophy of the Enlightenment was placed in a religious context. This AEI book forum will begin with a presentation of the book’s essential arguments by the author, followed by commentary and a general discussion. Copies of On Two Wings will be available.
Agenda
5:15 p.m. Registration
5:30 Introduction: Christopher DeMuth, AEI
Presentation: Michael Novak, AEI
Discussants: Irving Kristol, Public Interest
George F. Will, syndicated columnist
7:00 Adjournment
AEI Participants

 

Christopher
DeMuth
  • Christopher DeMuth was president of AEI from December 1986 through December 2008. Previously, he was administrator for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; taught economics, law, and regulatory policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; practiced regulatory, antitrust, and general corporate law; and worked on urban and environmental policy in the Nixon White House.

     

  • Phone: 2028625895
    Email: cdemuth@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Keriann Hopkins
    Phone: 2028625897
    Email: keriann.hopkins@aei.org
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Irving
Kristol (1920-2009)
  • Irving Kristol is widely considered to be the founder of American neoconservatism. He was the managing editor of Commentary magazine from 1947 to 1952 and the cofounder of the U.K.-based Encounter. After eight years as the executive vice president of Basic Books, Mr. Kristol became a professor of social thought at the New York University Graduate School of Business. In July 2002, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Michael
Novak
  • Michael Novak, a philosopher, theologian, and author, is the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He has been an emissary to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has written twenty-seven books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society. His latest book is No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers (Doubleday, 2008).
  • Phone: 2028625838
    Email: mnovak@aei.org
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