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Beauty, saving the world, and similar topics

March 21, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a short piece up at Solidarity Hall, a site that seems fairly new. It’s a comment on a much longer piece by Mark Signorelli, his review of the book Beauty Will Save the World by Gregory Wolfe.

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What are Catholics to do?

March 7, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the title of my current column at Catholic World Report. Basically it says we have to drop out from a radically technocratic world.

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The Church and the Constitution

February 9, 2013 by James Kalb

My new column is up at Catholic World Report. Basically, it says that the American political order needs to adopt Catholicism as its ethos to restore what’s been good in it.

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Should lesbian priests be allowed to marry each other?

February 5, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a snappily-written piece up at Crisis Magazine that discusses “gay marriage,” “woman priests,” and (best of all) the New World Order.

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Tardy reflections on the election

January 24, 2013 by James Kalb

My current column is online at Catholic World Report. Instead of talking about the stupid party and the evil party I talk about the party that believes in nothing and the party that believes in Nothing, but it comes to the same thing.

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Practical politics 2 Comments

Catholics and cultural assimilation

January 24, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a piece up at the Crisis website on the topic. Not surprisingly, I say the culture should assimilate to Catholics rather than the reverse.

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Turning the corner

December 6, 2012 by James Kalb

My column for Catholic World Report, on the need to expand what can be talked about in public life, is now up.

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Out of the wreckage

December 6, 2012 by James Kalb

I have another piece on the Sixties up at Crisis Magazine. It orginally started with an epigraph from The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius that got ditched because the site software couldn’t accommodate it:

“The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to

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Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism, History, Political theory 4 Comments

The historical roots of 1960s radicalism

November 16, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest piece at Crisis Magazine explains the Sixties as a stage of modernization (not necessarily a good thing).

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism, History, Political theory 1 Comment

An undemocratic future?

November 15, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest column is now online at Catholic World Report under that title. It’s a review of After Tocqueville by Chilton Williamson.

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