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 available in English a few years ago. When they did become available they aroused a … More ...

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 thought
and social organization. On the intellectual side these trends are obvious at least since

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 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:

Trads and Normies

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?

It’s

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

[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 tells them people don’t change much, so the way things were in the past is … More ...