thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb Takimag has published the following piece I wrote on social conservatism. Unfortunately, they no longer allow comments, which was always half the fun of publishing there.
Is Social Conservatism Necessary?
by James Kalb
January 15, 2009
Is Social Conservatism Necessary?
The voices of conventional wisdom are telling us once again that the Right should … More ...
My book has finally picked up a review at Amazon. If you’ve read it, why not post your own thoughts there? It’s easy, people will pay attention, and almost anything you say will be useful to someone. So do it!
My book has received a couple additional reviews, one in the Longview (East Texas) News-Journal, and one in a Hungarian weblog, Konzervativ tea-kor (the name seems to have something to do with tea).
The latter maintains the now-established tradition of reviews in languages very few English-speakers understand. An online translation service gives the following … More ...
Merry Christmas!
I’ve been doing some radio interviews to promote my book, maybe a couple dozen in total. Here are some I have links to:
Here’s the text of a talk I gave at the first annual conference of The H. L. Mencken Club. (Actually, I only had time to present the first 3/5 or so of the talk. The remainder was mostly a rehash of previous talks, though, so maybe it’s just as well.)
James … More ...
The merest straw in the wind, but interesting nonetheless: Religious people have superior visual perception. It seems that Dutch Calvinist university students recognize embedded visual patterns faster than their atheist classmates.
The study reminds me of one Christopher Alexander reports in his Nature of Order that showed that children were generally very good at … More ...
My book has been picked up by Conservative Book Club. That means you can get it for $1 as part of their introductory package of three books. They also carry The Tyranny of Nice by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere, and The Tyranny of Tolerance by Judge Robert H. Dierker, Jr., so you can … More ...
A friend is guest-editing a special issue of some publication that will deal with problems of gifted and talented education. For some reason he asked me to contribute an article, and here’s an initial sketch that I plan to expand a great deal. Any comments at this point would be nonetheless welcome.
… More ...Gifted and Talented
I expanded the lecture I gave last summer at Gardone into a series of three essays that can be found in the October, November, and December issues of The Angelus. You can also read a Google docs version of the series as a single document.