The Neuhaus Moment Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square by Randy Boyagoda Image Books, 2015, 459 pages, US$30   Richard John Neuhaus (1936–2009) was one of the most prominent American intellectuals of the twentieth century. Beginning in the early 1960s, when he first achieved public notice in the American civil rights and anti-war movements, he remained in the public eye for the next four decades, becoming among the most important conservative Catholic intellectual voices from the 1980s through the turn of the twenty-first century. Some of his aphorisms (such as Neuhaus’s law: “Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy…