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Catholicism and the Problem of Political Extremism, by James Kalb – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, Nov. 6, 2025

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI Books, 2008), Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church (Angelico Press, 2023).

Neither theory nor history suggests that a religion that places its ultimate hope in God’s action is more at risk of abusive conduct than secular faiths that put their hope in the organized physical force of state action.

Modern politics go to extremes.

There are a variety of reasons for that. One is that modern thought likes to draw far-reaching conclusions from a few simple principles. In the natural sciences, where exact verification is possible, it has been extremely productive.

In politics, it leads to insanity.

That’s what has happened to liberalism. It once seemed moderate, practical, and reform-minded. Its belief in the rule of law and constitutional protections for individual rights seemed part of that. But the logic of those principles said otherwise. Liberal rights famously evolve, and they trump practical considerations, so the liberal right to equal freedom eventually comes to require the eradication of all traditionally accepted human distinctions. …

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Catholicism and the Problem of Political Extremism, by James Kalb

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By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, Nov. 6, 2025

Neither theory nor history suggests that a religion that places its ultimate hope in God’s action is more at risk of abusive conduct than secular faiths that put their hope in the organized physical force of state action.

Modern politics go to extremes.

There are a variety of reasons for that. One is that modern thought likes to draw far-reaching conclusions from a few simple principles. In the natural sciences, where exact verification is possible, it has been extremely productive.

In politics, it leads to insanity.

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