Human Dignity?

Crisis: What Version of Human Dignity Should Catholics Defend? BY JAMES KALB

Dignitatis Humanae, the Vatican II declaration on religious liberty, appeals to what it says is a growing awareness of human dignity. More recent Vatican pronouncements, including the new language in [...]

Jim Kalb on Patrick Deneen's Book

The ABC of Liberal Failure

Roman Catholic Social Teaching Unlikely to Address This Point Any Time Soon

Crisis Magazine: Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine by James Kalb

The usual view among Catholics is that public authority should look after all aspects of the common good. As a result, the social encyclicals have proposed a variety of responsibilities

CWR: Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine by James Kalb

The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood and articulated.

An Impractical Patriotism

A Catholic Patriotism by James Kalb
America is not a system of beliefs but millions of people living together, so rejecting some beliefs now treated as official is not rejecting America

James Kalb is a good tradcon fighting the good fight but he's missing the problem of scale, too.

James Kalb, Liberalism, Catholicism, and the Good