Michael S. Joyce

For many of us coming of age in the early 1960s, our first serious exposure to the notion that “public life is not the first thing””but that there do exist “first things (principles) for the right ordering of public life””came in the writings of Jacques Maritain, . . . . Continue Reading »

Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in History By Robert H. Bremner Transaction. 235 pp. $34.95 We are experiencing a period of unprecedented charitable giving in America (it peaked in 1989 and was precipitated, of course, by what liberals have identified as "the politics of greed"), and we . . . . Continue Reading »