Where’s this headed?
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.
How religious is natural law?
In the Crisis piece mentioned in the previous entry, I suggested the relationship between the two was ambiguous. A blogger who wants to maintain a strong distinction between natural law and religion called me on it, so I had to develop my thoughts a little.
My answer was that the distinction is important … More ...
Older writings
My work has become more visible since I published my first book and then started writing for Catholic publications with a larger readership than the weblogs, quarterlies, and niche European publications that had been my major outlets up till then. I don’t think the concerns and substance have changed much but the presentation probably has. … More ...
Socrates among the sophists
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.
Lent and technocracy
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.
Rebuilding Christendom
I make the pitch for mild Catholic separatism in my current column at Catholic World Report.
Notes for revolutionaries
Jared Taylor has a lengthy and very favorable review up of my most recent book: “Against Inclusiveness, by independent scholar James Kalb, is one of the most quietly subversive books to be published in many years.”
Arguing over argument
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.
More on subsidiarity
I have an additional piece on the topic up at Catholic World Report. The basic point is extra ecclesiam nulla subsidiaritas. You’re not going to get subsidiarity apart from an understanding of the world that doesn’t seem to exist in secular public thought today.
What is normal?
That’s the issue considered in my latest column at Catholic World Report. The big question today is whether the expression means much of anything.