Is the family still fundamental?
Have the state and market replaced all other social institutions? I ask at Catholic World Report.
Intelligence in Danger of Death
This piece in Chronicles includes a short review I wrote about Marcel De Corte’s Intelligence
in Danger of Death, a penetrating critique of modern thought.
Ordo amoris
I discuss the Vice President’s comments at Catholic World Report.
More on what to do now
I continue my discussion of what Catholics should be doing in current unsettled times at Catholic World Report.
What way to a better world?
I do a little noodling about what Catholics should be doing now that social orthodoxies have been somewhat unsettled by the Trump victory, at Catholic World Report.
MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing
Like everybody else, I comment on the whole Trump victory thing.
The Church in an age of anxiety
What to do in a time of uncertainty? My latest at Catholic World Report.
Benedict Options
Here’s a chapter I wrote for The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Political Order, a collection of essays edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Thomas F.X. Varacalli.
Benedict Options
James Kalb
1 Introduction
As others have noted, we see around us the growth of a public order dominated by a post-Christian … More ...
Freedom and the political good
I wrote this not long after Obamacare was enacted, but it doesn’t seem to have been published. So here it is.
Freedom and the Political Good
by James Kalb
Recent disputes over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have created quite a stir. They have drawn attention not only because of the practical importance … More ...
Is Christianity “conservative”?
I discuss the relation between conservative Christianity and Catholicism at Catholic World Report
. In the piece I interpret “conservatism” as attachment to established ways and institutions and contrast it to orthodoxy.