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Our paganism: An American view, with comments from Augusto Del Noce

November 1, 2023July 18, 2023 by James Kalb

The following is a talk I gave July 10, 2023 at the Roman Forum conference in Gardone Riviera, Italy:

The Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989) is not well-known in America, mostly because his writings only started to become … Read more

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Why the Great Reset had to happen

November 1, 2023September 17, 2022 by James Kalb

Here’s my talk from the July 2022 Roman Forum Summer Symposium. The theme of the conference was the Great Reset, and my talk was on why it had to happen.

The “Great Reset” comes out of very long-term trends in

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Liberal modernity: ultimate and indestructible?

November 1, 2023September 8, 2022 by 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:

1 Liberalism

Nothing human

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How does Trad Catholicism look to outsiders?

November 1, 2023September 7, 2022 by James Kalb

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:

Trads and Normies

James Kalb

1 Introduction

Today I will talk about what the traditionalist movement looks like

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Trads and normies

July 14, 2021 by James Kalb

I deliver a lecture on how Catholic traditionalists look to non-traditionalists at the Roman Forum 2021 conference.

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Liberalism and social issues

November 1, 2023November 17, 2016 by James Kalb

Here’s a talk I gave to the H. L. Mencken Club a couple weeks ago, published at Crisis Magazine.

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The Left and human nature

November 1, 2023November 4, 2014 by James Kalb

[I gave the following talk at the 2014 conference of The H. L. Mencken Club.]

The Left doesn’t like the idea of human nature. It tells them they’re not free to do what they want. From a factual perspective it … Read more

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Liberal Values and the Seduction of the American Right

November 1, 2023November 27, 2011 by James Kalb

The following is a talk delivered at the 2011 Conference of the H. L. Mencken Club.

Why has American conservatism been such a flop? It finds it impossible to define what it wants, stick with it, and defend it. The … Read more

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PC: The Cultural Antichrist

November 1, 2023October 25, 2010 by James Kalb

Here’s a talk I gave yesterday at the annual conference of the H. L. Mencken Club.

The title of my talk is PC: The Cultural Antichrist.

It’s an odd title, but political correctness is an odd tendency. It’s a

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A Global EU? International Affairs and Contemporary Liberalism

November 1, 2023November 1, 2009 by James Kalb

I’ve attached the text of a talk I gave at the H. L. Mencken Club conference.

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