thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb Here’s another Roman Forum talk, this one from the 2019 Summer Symposium, held in Gardone, Italy, on July 8-19, 2019. It’s about the political, social, and moral black hole we seem to have fallen into:
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Nothing human lasts. Times change, and waves of the future break and recede. But people believe liberalism
Here’s the text of my talk at the 2021 Roman Forum Summer Symposium-in-Exile, delivered in Huntington, Long Island, on July 5, 2021:
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James Kalb
1 Introduction
Today I will talk about what the traditionalist movement looks like to other Catholics. What would make people interested in it? What would horrify them?
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So what social position would the Church ideally hold? I reflect on integralist claims at Catholic World Report.
Why has the emphasis on science, expertise, objective evidence and so led to utter madness? I discuss the question at Catholic World Report.
Is someone who opposes abortion but doesn’t support a comprehensive government welfare system prol-life? I discuss the issues at Catholic World Report.
I talk about how to stand by the Good, Beautiful, and True in a basically totalitarian age of lies.
I’ve complained about “expertise” as an institution. But what kind of education should we have?
The idea behind fanatical transgenderism is that reality is socially constructed, so denying Bruce Jenner is a woman is the same as annihilating the woman Caitlyn Jenner. It’s equivalent to murder, and implicitly to genocide.
But why do respectable people repeat this stuff, which you’d think they know is insane?
For some it has a … More ...
Progressives can simply look evil, because they’re so crazed. But there’s a whole theory of the world behind their views. Otherwise they wouldn’t be developing so uniformly or be so strong among formally educated people.
They believe in truth and righteousness. But it’s the “larger truth” that reflects necessary context: how bad and utterly disqualifying … More ...
“Left” means social justice, which means that social attitudes and connections are supervised and controlled by the guys at the top. The CEO of Goldman Sachs is a guy at the top.
I suppose someone could say “social justice” also means equality, but the left says all concepts are social constructions, so why wouldn’t the … More ...