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 ...
Freedom and the political good
I wrote this not long after Obamacare was enacted, but it doesn’t seem to have been published. So here it is.
Freedom and the Political Good
by James Kalb
Recent disputes over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have created quite a stir. They have drawn attention not only because of the practical importance … More ...
Is Christianity “conservative”?
I discuss the relation between conservative Christianity and Catholicism at Catholic World Report
. In the piece I interpret “conservatism” as attachment to established ways and institutions and contrast it to orthodoxy.
The center doesn’t hold here
On the decline of New York, a sketch at Chronicles Magazine from before the pandemic.
My review of Marcel De Corte, Intelligence in Danger of Death
My review of Marcel De Corte’s Intelligence in Danger of Death has been published in Catholic Social Science Review.
The Old Right and the Recovery of Social Order
The following essay was written for A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition, edited by Paul Gottfried, but was left out (apparently due to an administrative slip-up—editorial changes, author’s bio etc. had all been agreed on). A slightly revised version will be published in the Australian journal Observer and Review.
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… More ...The world, the Gospel, and the Most Real Being
I discuss progressive Christianity at Catholic World Report.
Conversation with Larry Chapp
I discuss my recent book The Decomposition of Man with Larry Chapp and Rodney Howsare on Dr. Chapp’s podcast.