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.
James Kalb
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 ...
Sex in the city, or wherever
Changes in sexual mores resulting from the lesser practical importance of marriage in a radically commercialized and bureaucratized society make the situation described in the last post quite a bit worse.
In such a society there is a tendency to delay or forgo marriage but not sexual activity. The result is that women become … More ...
Weird chix and loser doodz
The single most suggestive thing I’ve read about the sexes is this press release from some neurologists. Basically, it says that intelligence in men mostly matches up with gray matter in the brain and intelligence in women with white matter. So when men and women feel the uncontrollable urge to put the word “brain” in … More ...
Before the asteroid hit
Within living memory it was possible to talk about the sexes in an intelligent and civilized way. As proof here are some pages from The Viking Book of Aphorisms, edited by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger. The collection was published in 1962, the year before sex was invented (according to Philip Larkin… More ...
Love and marriage?
What’s with the sexes these days?
Questions about sex and the sexes are never really answerable, but people do notice things, and some of them seem illuminating, so an occasional comment is in order.
Everybody seems to agree there are problems today. Men and women have always complained about each other, but there seems to … More ...