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Article: Benefits of capitalism; The business of waging peace.(OPED)(POLITICAL BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- December 21, 2004
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Byline: William H. Peterson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Our nervous globe witnesses a clash of civilizations, of religions, a confrontation of cultures, some of them open to terrorism if not war, of nations in a vengeful mood as blood spills. Yet in Michael Novak, holder of the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, we behold a welcome peacemaker, one who lays down an engrossing groundwork so belligerents, actual and potential, can meet and see common cause. They can begin to wage peace rather than war. They can see and practice what St. Augustine said in his "The City of God" (427 A.D.): ...