A Decentralized American Nation?

Here’s a lecture I presented at a meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club, probably the 2018 one:

A Decentralized American Nation?

James Kalb

I’m going to speak about the idea of a decentralized American nation.

The topic’s an obvious one. The Mencken Club has mostly tended paleoconservative, and paleoconservatism was all about having a … More ...

What is Anti-Racism?

Racial differences and attachments are real, and they can’t be educated or administered away. Family, ancestry, and history are part of who we are, so they are part of identity. People take them to heart, and that’s not going to change.

So why do respectable people get so weird about them, and claim race doesn’t … More ...