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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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Where’s this headed?

May 19, 2014 by James Kalb

In a blog entry at Catholic World Report, I comment on incipient second thoughts about the direction liberalism is going from Democratic commentator Kirsten Powers.

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Socrates among the sophists

May 7, 2014 by James Kalb

I have a brace of new pieces up, one at Crisis Magazine about how bad ideological pluralism is and one at Catholic World Report on Socratic questioning as a weapon against technocracy.

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Lent and technocracy

April 9, 2014 by James Kalb

Those are the topics of my two most recent online columns, one at Crisis Magazine about how to infuse politics with a bit more soul, and one at Catholic World Report about why the Church can’t possibly use modern public language to speak to modern man.

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Rebuilding Christendom

March 11, 2014 by James Kalb

I make the pitch for mild Catholic separatism in my current column at Catholic World Report.

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Arguing over argument

February 12, 2014 by James Kalb

There’s a new piece I wrote at Crisis Magazine about snark and willful stupidity on the Internet, and the importance of plugging imperturbably away.

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