Addresses

• Tocqueville at 200. presented at the opening dinner of the Summer University of Aix en Provence at the end of August, in conjunction with a two-day Liberty Fund colloquium on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59), marking the 200th anniversary of his birth.

• Islam Tests Democracy delivered as the First Annual Friedrich Hayek Lecture for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. May 19, 2005.

• Global Liberty: Toward a foreign policy for democratic nations aversion of a speech presented at the Venice Conference IV on November 19, 2004, as a working paper for Center-Right Parties of the North Atlantic Alliance. Under the leadership of Senator Ferdinando Adornato of Italy, and drawing upon many sources, a public "charter" or "manifesto" is to be issued in 2005.

• Globalization with a Human Face. Remarks delivered before a Roundtable on Globalization and International Development at the "Global Governance and the Politics of Development" conference sponsored by the Vatican Foundation Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice on May 1, 2004. National Review Online May 26, 2004.

• Wealth & Virtue: The moral case for capitalism. Text of a speech delivered before the Mont Pelerin Society in Sri Lanka on January 11, 2004.

• On the Universality of the Catholic University. Excerpts From Address at Ave Maria College. Ann Arbor, MI. May 29, 2003.

• The Moral Heart of Capitalism: You can't make money without it. Sept. 10, 2002. Opening remarks for a panel on corporate responsibility at President Bush's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas.

• A New Conversation among Civilizations. Presented at a conference sponsored by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. March 20, 2002.

• The Ethical Challenges of Global Capitalism: A Response to Ron Sider, Discernment. Vol. 8, No. 2/3 Summer/Fall 2001. [Remarks presented in longer form during the annual David A. Penner Debate, held September 13, 2000, at Wheaton College - .pdf format]

• Catholic social teaching and the American experience; Response by Michael Novak. Boston College: Commonweal Foundation Faith & Reason Institute June 2-4, 2000.

• Catholics and Civic Engagement in the United States, Panel Discussion of John McGreevy's Paper and of Responses by John Farina and Leslie Tentler. Boston College: Commonweal Foundation Faith & Reason Institute June 2-4, 2000.

• God's Country, or Taking the Declaration Seriously. AEI Annual Dinner. (Washington). February 25, 1999.

• Our Better Angels. Text of Michael Novak's speech at the celebration of President Reagan's 88th birthday, delivered on February 5, 1999, before the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, in Simi Valley, CA.
  

• Humanizing Capitalism, Dialogue btw/ Rev. Alan Jones and Michael Novak. Grace Cathedral, Nov. 8, 1998. [RealAudio Format].

• Business as a Calling. Excerpts from the fourth in AEI's 1995-1996 Bradley Lecture Series December 12 in Washington, D.C.

• Inequality & Ideology. Essay is based on a presentation at AEI's Annual Policy Conference on December 5, 1995.

• Awakening from Nihilism presented by Mr. Novak at Westminster Abbey on May 5, 1994. He is the twenty-fourth recipient of The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. (Reprinted in First Things August / September 1994).