Charles Taylor is 1.5 million dollars richer as of last week. For what it's worth I argue here that Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre are the postwar era's most influential Anglophone Catholic intellectuals. Taylor spoke at Notre Dame just before receiving the award and I was able to attend. He discussed his forthcoming book on secularization, emphasizing the importance of the 1960s in this process even as he resists any linear line of secularization a la Max Weber. MacIntyre introduced Taylor by noting that to read Taylor's Sources of the Self and the books discussed therein, is to receive a better liberal arts education than that offered by most colleges. (He didn't exclude Notre Dame!)