Is realism realistic?

The smart guys say that since the Wars of Religion politics has been able to build solidly because it has aimed low, at stability and prosperity rather than any transcendent good. It turns out there’s a problem with the strategy: if the Good is excluded from public life the low eventually becomes very low indeed. … More ...

Dialogue on liberal tyranny

What is tyranny? There are obvious examples, but like other obvious things it can be hard to say what’s there when you press the point. Is PC tyranny? The patriarchy? Determinate being as such? All those things can seem horribly oppressive depending on which way you’re pointed. Like every other judgment, a judgment that something … More ...

The abolition of Europe continues

I thought I’d post a couple of comments I made at Brussels Journal about the slow-motion war being carried out by European elites against their own societies and people. The first is more or less self-explanatory:

Just a minor rant on “multiculturalism”:

Naturally, it can’t exist as a situation in which several cultures exist intermingled

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The closing of the ring

Here’s my contribution to The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement Paperback , co-edited by Paul Gottfried and Richard Spencer.

The Closing of the Ring

by James Kalb

What “political correctness” means is that there are more and more topics that cannot be discussed in reputable circles, even among those who say they … More ...

More on Rawls

Here are some further unsystematic thoughts noted down while reading Political Liberalism:

  1. Rawls presents himself as a theorist of democratic society. That is a misnomer. It is not the people who rule in a society in which basic issues are all resolved in advance by Rawls and other experts and the solutions enforced by
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