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Beyond populism

August 4, 2024July 11, 2016 by James Kalb

I have a piece in the August issue of Chronicles about what’s needed in view of the populist upsurge symbolized by Trump’s rise and most recently Brexit.

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For the restoration of reason and reality

July 7, 2016 by James Kalb

Current in Crisis Magazine: my piece on restoring sanity in an age that disintegrates thought.

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When should we ignore tradition?

July 6, 2016 by James Kalb

My most recent piece in Catholic World Report suggests grounds for ignoring tradition.

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More Thoughts on a Pastoral Church

July 5, 2016 by James Kalb

My June piece at Crisis Magazine discusses why current ways of speaking about the matter don’t make a lot of sense.

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Rights and choice as supreme standards

May 5, 2016 by James Kalb

Crisis Magazine has something I wrote on the topic.

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Tradition: its necessity and discontents

May 4, 2016 by James Kalb

My current column at Catholic World Report goes into those issues.

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Liberalism as a religion

May 3, 2016 by James Kalb

I discuss the religion of liberalism at Sydney Traditionalist Forum.

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People still read Sartre!

April 29, 2016 by James Kalb

A lecturer and adjunct professor of philosophy in Ohio has commented on a column on natural law I published recently at Catholic World Report (republished at Crisis).

He’s an existentialist whose great heroes are Sartre and Beauvoir, so he doesn’t think much of it.

He apparently wants to say “Kalb’s a dogmatic extremist, I’m … More ...

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Podcast with Tom Woods

April 28, 2016 by James Kalb

I was a guest on Tom Woods’s podcast yesterday, discussing my book The Tyranny of Liberalism.

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Pieces published elsewhere

April 21, 2016 by James Kalb

I’ve been busy, and haven’t been adding links to new items published at other sites. I think these will bring me up to date:

  • The True Benedict Option for Our Time. A Crisis piece commenting on the need for coherent local community.
  • Natural Law, Reality, and Ideological Fantasies. Something in Catholic World Report
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