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Against utopia

May 19, 2025 by James Kalb

What is the relation between the Gospel and the common good? My latest at Catholic World Report. (If you
prefer, you can also read it in Ukrainian.)

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Is the family still fundamental?

April 15, 2025 by James Kalb

Have the state and market replaced all other social institutions? I ask at Catholic World Report.

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Intelligence in Danger of Death

March 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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Ordo amoris

March 6, 2025 by James Kalb

I discuss the Vice President’s comments at Catholic World Report.

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More on what to do now

February 10, 2025 by James Kalb

I continue my discussion of what Catholics should be doing in current unsettled times at Catholic World Report.

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What way to a better world?

January 16, 2025 by James Kalb

I do a little noodling about what Catholics should be doing now that social orthodoxies have been somewhat unsettled by the Trump victory, at Catholic World Report.

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MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing

December 8, 2024 by James Kalb

Like everybody else, I comment on the whole Trump victory thing.

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The Church in an age of anxiety

November 18, 2024 by James Kalb

What to do in a time of uncertainty? My latest at Catholic World Report.

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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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Is Christianity “conservative”?

October 11, 2024 by James Kalb
I discuss the relation between conservative Christianity and Catholicism at Catholic World Report . In the piece I interpret “conservatism” as attachment to established ways and institutions and contrast it to orthodoxy.
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