Technocracy and the sexes
I discuss the effect of technocracy on relations between the sexes at Catholic World Report.
Liberal modernity: ultimate and indestructible?
Here’s another Roman Forum talk, this one from the 2019 Summer Symposium, held in Gardone, Italy, on July 8-19, 2019. It’s about the political, social, and moral black hole we seem to have fallen into:
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Nothing human lasts. Times change, and waves of the future break and recede. But people believe liberalism
How does Trad Catholicism look to outsiders?
Here’s the text of my talk at the 2021 Roman Forum Summer Symposium-in-Exile, delivered in Huntington, Long Island, on July 5, 2021:
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James Kalb
1 Introduction
Today I will talk about what the traditionalist movement looks like to other Catholics. What would make people interested in it? What would horrify them?
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Reflections on integralism
So what social position would the Church ideally hold? I reflect on integralist claims at Catholic World Report.
When reason becomes madness
Why has the emphasis on science, expertise, objective evidence and so led to utter madness? I discuss the question at Catholic World Report.
Are pro-lifers really pro-life?
Is someone who opposes abortion but doesn’t support a comprehensive government welfare system prol-life? I discuss the issues at Catholic World Report.
Politics and public life in a hall of mirrors
I talk about how to stand by the Good, Beautiful, and True in a basically totalitarian age of lies.
What to do about education?
I’ve complained about “expertise” as an institution. But what kind of education should we have?
Why lockstep transgenderism?
The idea behind fanatical transgenderism is that reality is socially constructed, so denying Bruce Jenner is a woman is the same as annihilating the woman Caitlyn Jenner. It’s equivalent to murder, and implicitly to genocide.
But why do respectable people repeat this stuff, which you’d think they know is insane?
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Progressives more crazed than evil
Progressives can simply look evil, because they’re so crazed. But there’s a whole theory of the world behind their views. Otherwise they wouldn’t be developing so uniformly or be so strong among formally educated people.
They believe in truth and righteousness. But it’s the “larger truth” that reflects necessary context: how bad and utterly disqualifying … More ...