The great thinker we don’t know

A committed Catholic and one of Italy’s leading public intellectuals until his death in 1989, Augusto Del Noce is largely unknown in the United States. But one hopes that will change with the recent release of The Age of Secularization, translated by Carlo Lancellotti, which makes available in English the work of a man who saw the shape of today’s world more clearly, more deeply, and earlier than many others.