The reset we need
I continue to complain about the vacancy of current public life and call for a basic change of direcion on Catholic World Repoort.
thoughts in and out of season
I continue to complain about the vacancy of current public life and call for a basic change of direcion on Catholic World Repoort.
I discuss the relation between politics and the Gospel at Catholic World Report.
Here’s the text of a lecture I presented July 9, 2025, at the Roman Forum conference in Gardone, Italy:
James Kalb
To understand the world and ourselves we need to take God and nature seriously. But what do we do then? People complain that talking about God and nature tells … More ...
I have a piece in Chronicles on the Savoyard counterrevotionary that’s part of their Remembering the Right series.
I do a little noodling about what Catholics should be doing now that social orthodoxies have been somewhat unsettled by the Trump victory, at Catholic World Report.
Like everybody else, I comment on the whole Trump victory thing.
An essay by British journalist James Jeffrey in Brussels Signal tucks in a brief discussion of my recent book The Disintegration of Man.
The following are my notes for a lecture I presented to the 2017 meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club on Trump and the “social issues.”
He’s not an actual social conservative. He’s OK … More ...
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 ...
There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.