David Cloutier (B.A., Carleton; Ph.D. Duke) is Professor of Moral Theology with a concurrent appointment in the Business, Ethics, and Society program of the Mendoza College of Business. He is the author of a number of books, including the award-winning The Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age (Georgetown UP) and Walking God’s Earth: The Environment and Catholic Theology (Liturgical Press). He has written for Commonweal, America, and writes a quarterly column on Catholic social ethics and everyday life for US Catholic. His current writing project aims at articulating more fully a Catholic social imaginary for contemporary society, beyond partisan divisions.