God and liberal modernity
That’s the name of my March column at Catholic World Report.
Published elsewhere online
The tyranny of misunderstood freedom
That’s the name of a piece I have up at Catholic World Report.
Empire and the crisis of American conservatism
I have a piece in a symposium on conservatism and empire at the University Bookman.
Salingaros interview
I interview the mathematician and architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros at the Philadelphia Society website. He goes into a variety of topics relating to his recent writings, including the evolution of living form, the cluelessness of modern man, the perfidies of the evil oligarchs. and what it all means for politics and religion.
Liberalism and its meaning for Christians
[Originally published in the Spring 2005 issue of The New Pantagruel]
Liberalism has enormous power as a social reality. When liberals call themselves “progressive” they make it stick. Their views dominate all reputable intellectual and cultural institutions. Judges feel free to read liberalism into fundamental law, even without historical or textual support, because it … More ...
What is religion?
I have another piece over at Takimag, this one a rant responding to a couple of posts over there about religion. I suppose it also responds to the interest among Takimag types in Nietzsche and H. L. Mencken.
What is Religion?
by James Kalb
January 16, 2009
Comments on religion by nonbelievers often make it … More ...
Liberalism and its meaning for Christians
The following essay appeared in the Spring, 2005 issue of The New Pantagruel.
Liberalism has enormous power as a social reality. When liberals call themselves “progressive” they make it stick. Their views dominate all reputable intellectual and cultural institutions. Judges feel free to read liberalism into fundamental law, even without historical or textual support, … More ...
Freedom, Discrimination and Culture
The following essay appeared in the July 1997 issue of Pinc.
… More ...Most objections to civil rights laws have to do with their empirical basis, with things like affirmative action that can be seen as abuses, or with libertarian principle and abstract economic reasoning. However cogent those objections are, they get shrugged off. It remains
Vindicating Stereotypes and Discrimination
The following essay appeared in the December 1998 issue of Pinc. It is also available in Czech.
No one treats a policeman like any other man. The response is elemental; we can not help but feel the force he represents. Our attitude is not simple fear of consequences, which rationally would usually lead … More ...
Anti-racism
The following essay appeared in the April 2000 issue of Pinc, and has also in large part been published in Danish. It may be of some interest because general discussions of anti-racism as an outlook and phenomenon are so exceedingly rare, given the importance of the subject.
… More ...“Racism is the worst of sins,