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Author Michael Novak in Conversation with Heather Mac Donald
An evening with Michael Novak, author of No One Sees God (Doubleday), and Heather Mac Donald
The Harvard Club, New York City
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Michael Novak's new book is a reasoned response to today's brigade of "new atheists" as well as an exploration of the "dark night of unseeing" often experienced by believers themselves. The book was prompted in part by a lengthy exchange two years ago, in print and online, between Novak and the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald, a vocal nonbeliever and a critic of the role of religiosity in American public life. In two chapters of No One Sees God—and now at this Templeton Book Forum—he and Mac Donald continue their conversation.
Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. His more than 25 books include Belief and Unbelief (1965), The Experience of Nothingness (1970), Will It Liberate? Questions About Liberation Theology (1986), Tell Me Why: A Father Answers His Daughter's Questions about God, with Jana Novak (1998), and On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding (2001). He received the Templeton Prize in 1994 and has won many other international awards.
Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. Her work for City Journal and many other publications has covered a range of topics, including homeland security, immigration, policing, race, welfare, homelessness, and educational policy. In 2005, she received the Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement.