Remembering Augusto Del Noce
What does an idiosyncratic Italian philosopher mean for us in America today? At Chronicles Magazine I discuss Augusto Del Noce.
Political theory
Leave the world or embrace it?
How do Catholics deal with a world that’s so stubbornly unmanageable? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
More on my new book
An essay by British journalist James Jeffrey in Brussels Signal tucks in a brief discussion of my recent book The Disintegration of Man.
Realities are greater than ideas
So why do Synodality, Social Justice, and other utopian schemes fall on their faces? And how can we make our efforts more productive? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
Is New York still a city?
A lecture I presented at the 2018 meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club:
Is New York Still a City?
by James Kalb
We’re here at the conference to talk about whether America is still a nation. On this panel we’re discussing the limits of democratic pluralism. So I’ll discuss whether New York is a … More ...
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?
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 ...
More of the same
Here’s a discussion of the future of race relations.
More of the Same
The state of American race relations in twenty years will depend on the status of a conflict among various immovable objects and irresistible but slow-acting forces. Such conflicts generally don’t go anywhere fast, so neither will race relations.
The most obvious immovable … More ...
Where is all this leading?
My latest at Catholic World Report suggests that secular liberalism won’t have the staying power effectually to suppress Catholicism.
The darkness gathers
I have another piece on the Windsor decision, this one at Crisis Magazine. It deals with the increasing radicalism, mindlessness, and intolerance of mainstream progressive thought.