Against utopia
What is the relation between the Gospel and the common good? My latest at Catholic World Report. (If you
prefer, you can also read it in Ukrainian.)
Society and culture
Is the family still fundamental?
Have the state and market replaced all other social institutions? I ask at Catholic World Report.
Intelligence in Danger of Death
This piece in Chronicles includes a short review I wrote about Marcel De Corte’s Intelligence
in Danger of Death, a penetrating critique of modern thought.
Ordo amoris
I discuss the Vice President’s comments at Catholic World Report.
More on what to do now
I continue my discussion of what Catholics should be doing in current unsettled times at Catholic World Report.
What way to a better world?
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.
MAGA, Trump, and the vision thing
Like everybody else, I comment on the whole Trump victory thing.
The Church in an age of anxiety
What to do in a time of uncertainty? My latest at Catholic World Report.
Benedict Options
Here’s a chapter I wrote for The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Political Order, a collection of essays edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Thomas F.X. Varacalli.
Benedict Options
James Kalb
1 Introduction
As others have noted, we see around us the growth of a public order dominated by a post-Christian … More ...
The center doesn’t hold here
On the decline of New York, a sketch at Chronicles Magazine from before the pandemic.