New review
A Catholic blogger reviews my book Against Inclusiveness.
James Kalb
What prospects for thought?
I follow up last month’s piece at Catholic World Report on the destruction of thought with another on its possible future.
The Church and the god of this world
Current public thought excludes basic realities, so we shouldn’t use it as a basis of discussion with people today. That’s the thought behind my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.
Notes on a book against modernist and postmodernist art
The book is Who Says That’s Art?: A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts, by Michelle Marder Kamhi. It was recommended by a friend who’s also a friend of the author.
The author herself is an independent scholar and co-editor of the (now online) journal Aristos. She seems to be somewhat of a … More ...
How do we smarten up when everything’s dumbing down?
I just published a brace of pieces on that timely topic at Crisis Magazine and Catholic World Report.
A Catholic patriotism
My current column at Catholic World Report says that America’s a country and not a cause or creed, so there’s no reason to put Catholicism and patriotism at odds with each other. Indeed, the two go together.
The Flynn Effect, technocracy, and natural law
I go into all that and more in my latest at Crisis Magazine.
Pro “gay marriage” and pro-life?
Another correspondent asks whether I think it’s possible to be pro-gay marriage and pro-life: whether logically, rationally, ultimately, the two positions can be reconciled. She had noticed some conservatives going that way.
It seemed to me you could give multiple answers depending on how you took the question:
- Of course they can be reconciled. You
Another explanation of the Vatican II debacle
A correspondent forwards the following:
… More ...Another problem for which Vatican II was responsible is what one might call the gentrification of Catholic culture. The fact that Europe’s working classes had largely abandoned Catholicism by the late 1950s enabled Vatican II to concentrate on constructing an essentially middle-class model of what it is to be Catholc.
Catholicism and the ideological temptation
Current politics has lost any reasonable conception of the public good. That has to change, and changing it should be central to Catholic political activity. So says my latest piece at Catholic World Report.