Freedom and the political good
I have a piece by that name (subtitled “some preliminary considerations”) up at the Liberty Law Blog.
James Kalb
What is the etiology of liberalism?
The question seems important, since where liberalism comes from affects how we should deal with it and where it is likely to go. Many right-wingers, for example, think of it as psychological or instrumental: people are liberals because they feel this way or that, or because they want to get money, power, status, or whatever. … More ...
Liberalism, Catholicism, and the Good
I have another column, this one on liberal and Catholic conceptions of the good and the just, at Catholic World Report.
More on freedom and tyranny
That’s the original title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It’s basically an argument that Catholics shouldn’t base their political arguments on freedom, they should base them on substantive goods. (I don’t know what it shows that they renamed it “Tyranny, Religion, and the Fight for Freedom.”)
Does inclusiveness include?
Here’s a study that may be more interesting than the author realizes: people in Ann Arbor, Michigan, presumably mostly quite liberal, literally don’t realize that people whose politics differ from their own react to cold the same way they do. Does that explain the Gulag, or am I wrong in my immediate reaction that (at … More ...
After Liberalism: Notes toward Reconstruction
That’s the title of an essay I wrote that appears in the Spring 2012 issue of the Intercollegiate Review.
Caught in the Morass
[The following review, somewhat edited in ways I did not have a chance to look at (and in some respects would not have approved), appeared under the title Libertarian Limits in the January 2012 issue of First Things]
On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence, by Frank Furedi, Continuum, 224 pages, $22.95
The … More ...
God and liberal modernity
That’s the name of my March column at Catholic World Report.
The tyranny of misunderstood freedom
That’s the name of a piece I have up at Catholic World Report.
More on Islam, women, and the West
A correspondent, who had read my previous comments on women in Islam, asked whether I thought he was hysterical to say Islam enslaves women. He lives in a part of England where Muslims have recently become more of a presence, finds the routine sight of women in niqab shocking, and can’t understand why intellectual … More ...