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What if the ’60s had been intelligent?

September 4, 2014 by James Kalb

Suppose people had done something sensible about the deficiencies of postwar America. What would it have been? And why did they do all the stupid stuff instead? To find out, read my latest Crisis piece.

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Haidt explained

August 8, 2014 by James Kalb

Why is it that lefties only bother with three of Jonathan Haidt’s moral concerns while righties care about all six? My current column in Catholic World Report explains it all for you. (It also tells you who Jonathan Haidt is in case you’re not up on all that.)

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Accentuating the positive

August 6, 2014 by James Kalb

I have a piece up at Crisis Magazine about the work that’s needed to present Catholic doctrine in a way that it can be understood.

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Essay on Christopher Alexander

July 19, 2014 by James Kalb

An essay or book review I wrote on architectural theorist Christopher Alexander’s theory of order has appeared in the International Journal of Architectural Research. Here’s the special issue in which the piece appears.

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The Church and the world after Vatican II

July 11, 2014 by James Kalb

My current column at Catholic World Report discusses how extremely demanding Paul VI’s vision of the Council was, how the world has been much too willful and strong and Catholic flesh and blood too weak, and what needs to be done to retrieve the situation somewhat.

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Tradition vindicated

July 9, 2014 by James Kalb

That’s the topic of my latest column at Crisis Magazine.

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Nature in an unnatural age

July 4, 2014 by James Kalb

I have a piece at the Catholic World Report weblog on the absurdity and necessity of natural law arguments in a moralistic technocracy.

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Carrying on the battle

June 13, 2014 by James Kalb

My latest column at Catholic World Report says we’re not going to be able to slide through the current situation by lying low and waiting until it all blows over. The issues are too basic.

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The one, the many, and inclusion

June 9, 2014 by James Kalb

My latest piece at Crisis Magazine discusses good fences, good neighbors, the One, the Many, and inclusiveness.

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Today’s totalitarians

May 28, 2014 by James Kalb

Thomas Bertonneau has a review of Against Inclusiveness up at The University Bookman that deals with a variety of themes in the book that others haven’t much touched on.

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