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Equality and Catholicism

August 7, 2012 by James Kalb

I have yet another piece at Catholic World Report, this one on equality and Catholicism. It points out that the progressive understanding of equality is at odds with Catholicism, good sense, good order, human well-being, and what not else, because it demands the abolition of all significant social institutions other than global markets … More ...

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism, Inclusiveness, Rights 2 Comments

The Left, the Right, and Catholicism

July 9, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest at Catholic World Report is about left liberals, right liberals, and what to do about them.

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In the Middle of the Journey

June 14, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest column at Catholic World Report goes into various flip-flops in the Catholic Church’s attitude toward secular powers. There are no perfect answers, but clear-headedness is good, and maybe the Church is righting herself from the extreme optimism of the post-Vatican II period.

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism, Practical politics 2 Comments

Mixing it up over Maistre

June 11, 2012 by James Kalb

An old libertarian friend, Todd Seavey, posted an entry in his blog regarding The Works of Joseph de Maistre that complained about Maistre and mentioned me, so in response I posted a couple of comments that I think make sense even apart from the original setting. The point at issue, as you will see, was … More ...

Categories Uncategorized Tags Catholicism, Political theory, Religion 7 Comments

Liberalism, Catholicism, and the Good

May 8, 2012 by James Kalb

I have another column, this one on liberal and Catholic conceptions of the good and the just, at Catholic World Report.

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More on freedom and tyranny

April 12, 2012 by James Kalb

That’s the original title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It’s basically an argument that Catholics shouldn’t base their political arguments on freedom, they should base them on substantive goods. (I don’t know what it shows that they renamed it “Tyranny, Religion, and the Fight for Freedom.”)

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism, Political theory 1 Comment

God and liberal modernity

March 6, 2012 by James Kalb

That’s the name of my March column at Catholic World Report.

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism, Political theory 6 Comments

The tyranny of misunderstood freedom

February 14, 2012 by James Kalb

That’s the name of a piece I have up at Catholic World Report.

Categories Published elsewhere online Tags Catholicism 1 Comment

Reason and religion

September 7, 2011 by James Kalb

Four religions:

  1. Liberalism: A single human world ordered only by reason, based on pure (content-free) concepts. Freedom says you ignore the content of human goals and promote all of them simply as such, and equality says you ignore the content of human qualities so you treat all men as equal in value. Put them together
… More ...
Categories Uncategorized Tags Catholicism, Political theory, Religion 11 Comments

How is Professor Epstein unlike the Pope?

August 24, 2011 by James Kalb

Richard Epstein has an online piece entitled How Is Warren Buffett Like the Pope?

It seems that on the way to Spain for World Youth Day the Pope said that the economy “cannot be measured by the maximum profit but by the common good,” and that it “cannot function only with mercantile self-regulation but needs … More ...

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