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The new world “order” is a complicated, emerging political “disorder” with remote historical roots in Cartesian and Enlightenment sophistry and secularized Protestant theology, not in philosophy.¹ Because the “new world order” is complicated, understanding justice in the new world order is also complicated.

Proximately, the new world order began as the brainchild of some well-meaning Western intellectuals just after the end of World War II, as a means to heal what at least one leading Catholic philosopher of the time, Jacques Maritain, described to be a “world broken by postwar distress and the weight of rival economic, political, and ideological…