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Remembering Joseph de Maistre

June 3, 2025 by James Kalb

I have a piece in Chronicles on the Savoyard counterrevotionary that’s part of their Remembering the Right series.

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Intelligence in Danger of Death

June 26, 2025March 8, 2025 by James Kalb

This piece in Chronicles includes a short review I wrote about Marcel De Corte’s Intelligence
in Danger of Death
, a penetrating critique of modern thought.

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Benedict Options

October 29, 2024October 26, 2024 by James Kalb

Here’s a chapter I wrote for The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Political Order, a collection of essays edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Thomas F.X. Varacalli.

Benedict Options

James Kalb

1 Introduction

As others have noted, we see around us the growth of a public order dominated by a post-Christian … More ...

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The center doesn’t hold here

September 26, 2024 by James Kalb

On the decline of New York, a sketch at Chronicles Magazine from before the pandemic.

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My review of Marcel De Corte, Intelligence in Danger of Death

September 22, 2024 by James Kalb
My review of Marcel De Corte’s Intelligence in Danger of Death has been published in Catholic Social Science Review.

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Remembering Augusto Del Noce

February 2, 2024 by James Kalb
What does an idiosyncratic Italian philosopher mean for us in America today? At Chronicles Magazine I discuss Augusto Del Noce.
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Remembering Paul Elmer More

December 1, 2023 by James Kalb

I discuss “New Humanist” literary critic and Christian apologist Paul Elmer More in the December issue of Chronicles Magazine.

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Recollections of 9/11

August 3, 2024September 11, 2021 by James Kalb

I watched the Towers burn on 9/11 from where I lived, three miles away. At Chronicles Magazine I comment on how it seemed and how it seems.

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New York’s new normal

August 3, 2024January 2, 2021 by James Kalb

What happens when the big city shuts down? I discuss at Chronicles Magazine.

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What civil rights hath wrought

August 4, 2024September 28, 2020 by James Kalb

I discuss Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement at Chronicles Magazine.

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