thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb [The following review appeared in the June, 2014 issue of Chronicles:]
We have been enduring the cultural revolution of liberal modernity. It is hard to say exactly when that revolution began, but it took a great step forward in the 60’s, when social and religious tradition lost its last shreds of public authority, and … More ...
Thomas Bertonneau has a review of Against Inclusiveness up at The University Bookman that deals with a variety of themes in the book that others haven’t much touched on.
In a blog entry at Catholic World Report, I comment on incipient second thoughts about the direction liberalism is going from Democratic commentator Kirsten Powers.
In the Crisis piece mentioned in the previous entry, I suggested the relationship between the two was ambiguous. A blogger who wants to maintain a strong distinction between natural law and religion called me on it, so I had to develop my thoughts a little.
My answer was that the distinction is important … More ...
My work has become more visible since I published my first book and then started writing for Catholic publications with a larger readership than the weblogs, quarterlies, and niche European publications that had been my major outlets up till then. I don’t think the concerns and substance have changed much but the presentation probably has. … More ...
I have a brace of new pieces up, one at Crisis Magazine about how bad ideological pluralism is and one at Catholic World Report on Socratic questioning as a weapon against technocracy.
Those are the topics of my two most recent online columns, one at Crisis Magazine about how to infuse politics with a bit more soul, and one at Catholic World Report about why the Church can’t possibly use modern public language to speak to modern man.
I make the pitch for mild Catholic separatism in my current column at Catholic World Report.
Jared Taylor has a lengthy and very favorable review up of my most recent book: “Against Inclusiveness, by independent scholar James Kalb, is one of the most quietly subversive books to be published in many years.”
There’s a new piece I wrote at Crisis Magazine about snark and willful stupidity on the Internet, and the importance of plugging imperturbably away.