At a time when some public policy entrepreneurs consider no labels to be the most sophisticated and admirable of labels, it is refreshing to see a writer who is willing to accept a label in the ideological bridge-building genreI am sure Lew Daly would accept that description of this useful new bookGods Economy: Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State. Lew Daly is, he says, a welfare conservative.
David M. Wagner, "Review Essay: A Liberal 'Welfare Conservative' Boldly Explains Why Nineteenth-Century Popes Are Relevant to Twenty-First-Century Welfare Reform," Journal of Markets & Morality 14, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 103-111