Oct. 13, 2007
Author Thomas Woods To Speak at Wheeling Jesuit University
By HNN Staff
Wheeling, WV (HNN) — Wheeling Jesuit University's Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality (ISCM) with support from the BB&T Corporation is again sponsoring a series of four free public lectures during the 2007-2008 for the public to enjoy. Featuring national experts addressing topics of concern, the lecture series is both educational for students and interesting to the public.
The first lecture this year takes place at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23 in the National Technology Transfer Center auditorium when historian and author Thomas E. Woods Jr. presents a talk on "Globalization and the Churches: Are We Ready to Learn from Failure?"
Dr. Tom Michaud, faculty scholar with the Institute, said that Woods' lecture should be especially interesting for faith-based activists and concerned citizens for whom the socio-economic conditions in lesser-developed countries are a serious moral problem. Since this year marks the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's famous encyclical Populorum Progressio (1967), which called for massive wealth transfers to the developing world, as well as various other programs designed to lead those countries to prosperity, Woods' comments will be timely.
Woods claims that the verdict is in, and the news isn't good. The very programs that were recommended seem only to have retarded growth and worsened the lot of the poorest. That was not their intention, according to Woods, but these foreign-aid disasters remind us that while religious leaders may certainly speak about general moral principles pertaining to economics, they are all too fallible when it comes to making specific policy recommendations, he concludes.
The lecture will discuss these matters, and consider the position that the churches ought to adopt if they are genuinely concerned about the developing world, said Michaud, who encourages everyone to come out and hear this entertaining and well-informed expert.
Woods is a senior fellow at the Auburn, Alabama-based Ludwig von Mises Institute, the research center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's and doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University.
His most recent book is 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. His others include the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery), How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Regnery), and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Lexington). His critically acclaimed 2004 book The Church Confronts Modernity was recently released in paperback by Columbia University Press. Woods' books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Romanian, and Chinese.
Woods' writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, Catholic Historical Review, Modern Age, American Studies, Catholic Social Science Review, Inside the Vatican, University Bookman, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, Catholic World Report, Independent Review, Religion & Liberty, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, AD2000 (Australia), Christian Order (U.K.), Crisis, and Human Rights Review.
Woods won first place in the prestigious Templeton Enterprise Awards for 2006, given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Templeton Foundation, for his book The Church and the Market. He was the recipient of the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and of an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003. He has also been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
For 11 years Woods served as associate editor of The Latin Mass magazine; he is presently a contributing editor of The American Conservative and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. A contributor to six encyclopedias, Woods is also co-editor of an 11-volume encyclopedia of American history to be released in 2008.
Woods has appeared on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends, and The Big Story with John Gibson, as well as on MSNBC's Scarborough Country and C-Span2's Book TV. He has been a guest on over 150 radio programs, including Fox News Live with Alan Colmes, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, and the Michael Medved Show. Published interviews with Woods have appeared in dozens of newspapers and other periodicals in the United States and around the world.
Founded in the spring of 2006 as a result of a generous grant from the BB&T Charitable Foundation, the ISCM at Wheeling Jesuit is dedicated to an examination of capitalism and free society through a series of programs including lectures, seminars and undergraduate courses that advance its' mission of providing a deeper understanding of the moral, legal and economic foundations of such a free society.
Author Thomas Woods To Speak at Wheeling Jesuit University
By HNN Staff
Wheeling, WV (HNN) — Wheeling Jesuit University's Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality (ISCM) with support from the BB&T Corporation is again sponsoring a series of four free public lectures during the 2007-2008 for the public to enjoy. Featuring national experts addressing topics of concern, the lecture series is both educational for students and interesting to the public.
The first lecture this year takes place at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23 in the National Technology Transfer Center auditorium when historian and author Thomas E. Woods Jr. presents a talk on "Globalization and the Churches: Are We Ready to Learn from Failure?"
Dr. Tom Michaud, faculty scholar with the Institute, said that Woods' lecture should be especially interesting for faith-based activists and concerned citizens for whom the socio-economic conditions in lesser-developed countries are a serious moral problem. Since this year marks the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's famous encyclical Populorum Progressio (1967), which called for massive wealth transfers to the developing world, as well as various other programs designed to lead those countries to prosperity, Woods' comments will be timely.
Woods claims that the verdict is in, and the news isn't good. The very programs that were recommended seem only to have retarded growth and worsened the lot of the poorest. That was not their intention, according to Woods, but these foreign-aid disasters remind us that while religious leaders may certainly speak about general moral principles pertaining to economics, they are all too fallible when it comes to making specific policy recommendations, he concludes.
The lecture will discuss these matters, and consider the position that the churches ought to adopt if they are genuinely concerned about the developing world, said Michaud, who encourages everyone to come out and hear this entertaining and well-informed expert.
Woods is a senior fellow at the Auburn, Alabama-based Ludwig von Mises Institute, the research center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's and doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University.
His most recent book is 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. His others include the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Regnery), How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Regnery), and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Lexington). His critically acclaimed 2004 book The Church Confronts Modernity was recently released in paperback by Columbia University Press. Woods' books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish, German, Romanian, and Chinese.
Woods' writing has appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, including the American Historical Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, Catholic Historical Review, Modern Age, American Studies, Catholic Social Science Review, Inside the Vatican, University Bookman, Journal of Markets & Morality, New Oxford Review, Catholic World Report, Independent Review, Religion & Liberty, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, AD2000 (Australia), Christian Order (U.K.), Crisis, and Human Rights Review.
Woods won first place in the prestigious Templeton Enterprise Awards for 2006, given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Templeton Foundation, for his book The Church and the Market. He was the recipient of the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and of an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003. He has also been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and a Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
For 11 years Woods served as associate editor of The Latin Mass magazine; he is presently a contributing editor of The American Conservative and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. A contributor to six encyclopedias, Woods is also co-editor of an 11-volume encyclopedia of American history to be released in 2008.
Woods has appeared on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends, and The Big Story with John Gibson, as well as on MSNBC's Scarborough Country and C-Span2's Book TV. He has been a guest on over 150 radio programs, including Fox News Live with Alan Colmes, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, and the Michael Medved Show. Published interviews with Woods have appeared in dozens of newspapers and other periodicals in the United States and around the world.
Founded in the spring of 2006 as a result of a generous grant from the BB&T Charitable Foundation, the ISCM at Wheeling Jesuit is dedicated to an examination of capitalism and free society through a series of programs including lectures, seminars and undergraduate courses that advance its' mission of providing a deeper understanding of the moral, legal and economic foundations of such a free society.
