Why "woke" social justice is not Catholic social justice: I discuss at Catholic World Report.

Yet another piece in Catholic World Report, this one about the traditional observances and the mission of the Church today.

You don't conquer half the world without being right about something I discuss a partial instance, the Marxist theory of ideology, at Catholic World Report.

How do we deal with something as incoherent as "pluralism"? I discuss at Catholic World Report.

Does the concept of "soft totalitarianism" make sense? I discuss at Catholic World Report.

I puzzle over how Catholics can remain Catholics while dealing with politics.

I discuss the recent signing ceremony for the "Respect for Marriage" Act.

What is natural and what is rational in social life? I discuss in Catholic World Report.

Writing in Catholic World Report I discuss what to do with Catholic social teaching in a time in which divisions are so deep and there is so little solid to work with.

People complained about my column on integralism, so I wrote another one.

The “Great Reset” comes out of very long-term trends in thought and social organization. On the intellectual side these trends are obvious at least since the scientific revolution of the 17th century, on the institutional side since the rise of the modern state and later the industrial revolution. Their roots of course go much deeper.

I discuss the effect of technocracy on relations between the sexes at Catholic World Report.

Here's another Roman Forum talk, this one from the 2019 Summer Symposium, held in Gardone, Italy, on July 8-19, 2019. It's about the political, social, and moral black hole we seem to have fallen into:

Here's the text of my talk at the 2021 Roman Forum Summer Symposium-in-Exile, delivered in Huntington, Long Island, on July 5, 2021:

Trads and Normies

James Kalb

1 Introduction

Today I will talk about what the traditionalist movement looks like to other Catholics. What would make people interested in it? What would horrify them?

So what social position would the Church ideally hold? I reflect on integralist claims at Catholic World Report.

Why has the emphasis on science, expertise, objective evidence and so led to utter madness? I discuss the question at Catholic World Report.

Is someone who opposes abortion but doesn't support a comprehensive government welfare system prol-life? I discuss the issues at Catholic World Report.

I talk about how to stand by the Good, Beautiful, and True in a basically totalitarian age of lies.

I've complained about "expertise" as an institution. But what kind of education should we have?