How many cheers for capitalism?
I consider Christian objections to “capitalism” in my latest at Catholic World Report.
Liberalism and social issues
Here’s a talk I gave to the H. L. Mencken Club a couple weeks ago. A shorter version was published at Crisis Magazine.
Social Issues: What, Why and Whither
by James Kalb
Today I’m going to speak about social issues: what they are, why they’re issues, and where they’re going. I’ll include some comments … More ...
Comments on the election
Looking forward there’s a lot to do. Part of an insta-symposium at Chronicles.
Dictatorship and relativism
What sense does it make to speak of a “dictatorship of relativism? I discuss the point in Catholic World Report.
When love, mercy, and dignity lose their meaning
My new piece at Crisis Magazine deals with the Christian and the secular liberal understandings of those things.
More on marginalization and its paradoxes
Once more I discuss marginalization at Crisis Magazine, this time with an emphasis on its inevitability and its growth under a regime of global inclusiveness.
Norms, abnormality, and false liberation
I have a column in the current Catholic World Report on the effects of normalizing sexual oddity.
The technocratic war on traditional identities
Such is the title of my latest column over at Catholic World Report.
In praise of exclusion and marginalization
I have a piece on some such topic over at Crisis Magazine.
Liberalism vs the good
There’s an interview with me on that topic over at The Ordeal of Consciousness.