Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a moral and political philosopher of the twentieth century who wrote and spoke extensively about the threats that secularism, materialism and coercive social engineering by state authorities pose to the democratic experiment. From a Jacques Maritain compendium edited by James P. Kelly III: The American body politic is the only one that was fully and explicitly born of freedom, of the free determination of men to live together and work together at a common task. And in this new political creation, men who belonged to various national stocks and spiritual lineages and religious creeds – and...