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The radical meaning of “gay marriage”

July 3, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the title of my most recent piece at Crisis Magazine. It discusses recent developments in connection with the trend toward a single universal regime of contract and regulation in which no point has privileged independence.

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Against Inclusiveness

June 24, 2013 by James Kalb

I’ve got a new book out, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It. It develops some of the arguments from The Tyranny of Liberalism and applies them in a more focused way to debunk our supreme moral principle, or what now seems to … More ...

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The Church as Archimedes’ fulcrum

June 11, 2013 by James Kalb

Here’s another piece at Crisis, this one about the necessity of the Church as an independent institution in an age of Gleichschaltung.

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What are Catholics to do? (part III)

May 3, 2013 by James Kalb

There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.

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Tolerance that swallows itself

April 15, 2013 by James Kalb

My review of The Intolerance of Tolerance, a book by reformed theologian D. A. Carson, is available at The University Bookman.

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What are Catholics to do?

March 7, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the title of my current column at Catholic World Report. Basically it says we have to drop out from a radically technocratic world.

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The Church and the Constitution

February 9, 2013 by James Kalb

My new column is up at Catholic World Report. Basically, it says that the American political order needs to adopt Catholicism as its ethos to restore what’s been good in it.

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Out of the wreckage

December 6, 2012 by James Kalb

I have another piece on the Sixties up at Crisis Magazine. It orginally started with an epigraph from The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius that got ditched because the site software couldn’t accommodate it:

“The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to

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The historical roots of 1960s radicalism

November 16, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest piece at Crisis Magazine explains the Sixties as a stage of modernization (not necessarily a good thing).

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An undemocratic future?

November 15, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest column is now online at Catholic World Report under that title. It’s a review of After Tocqueville by Chilton Williamson.

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