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Technology and social justice

June 22, 2025 by James Kalb

I have a piece on “social justice,” technology, and tyranny at Catholic World Report.

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Remembering Joseph de Maistre

June 3, 2025 by James Kalb

I have a piece in Chronicles on the Savoyard counterrevotionary that’s part of their Remembering the Right series.

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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

June 26, 2025March 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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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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My review of Marcel De Corte, Intelligence in Danger of Death

September 22, 2024 by James Kalb
My review of Marcel De Corte’s Intelligence in Danger of Death has been published in Catholic Social Science Review.

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