What is normal?
That’s the issue considered in my latest column at Catholic World Report. The big question today is whether the expression means much of anything.
James Kalb
Will the Church return to type?
That’s the original title of my latest piece at Crisis Magazine. It says that the dispute between progressive and traditionalist Catholics is a dispute over whether the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has an essential nature.
Inclusiveness and Crisis, part II
Crisis has published the second part of my two-part piece on inclusiveness.
Subsidiarity
That’s the topic of my latest column at Catholic World Report.
Inclusiveness and Crisis, part I
Crisis Magazine has published the first part of a two-part piece on inclusiveness that gives a thumbnail sketch of the argument of my recent book on the topic.
The inclusion obsession
I gave this lecture at the 2013 meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club.
The “Inclusion” Obsession
by James Kalb
We hear a lot about inclusiveness, and it’s apparently very important, but the topic is never discussed analytically. The idea seems to be that it’s warm and fuzzy and just obviously a good thing. The … More ...
The end of generic conservatism
That’s the subject of my most recent piece at Crisis Magazine.
The Return of Christendom
That’s the title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It tells us that Christendom is always with us.
De mulieribus Americanis
A common claim among dissatisfied men is that American women are the worst. European women, it is said, are are more feminine, less self-centered, and less concerned with their careers than their American counterparts.
American women do seem to be somewhat different. Even the northern and Germanic countries, which seem so single-mindedly egalitarian, have … More ...
Men’s and women’s “starter marriages”
The differences between the sexes I discussed a couple of posts ago come out in the differing uses of “starter husband” and “starter wife.”
Both apparently have their roots in the expression “starter marriage,” which appears in various things women have written about married young/divorced young situations. Most of the commentary (going back … More ...