Notes for Revolutionaries
Why the regime must fall.
James Kalb, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It, Angelico Press, 2013, 203 pp., $19.95 (soft cover).
Against Inclusiveness, by independent scholar James Kalb, is one of the most quietly subversive books to be published in many years. It is perhaps most remarkable for what it takes for granted: Of course race, nation, family, sex, erotic orientation, and religion are fundamental aspects of human identity, and of course healthy people discriminate. The “inclusivist” orthodoxy of our times, which commands us to pretend these things do not matter, is therefore inhuman and tyrannical.
I have spent 25 years patiently establishing the factual and moral bases for discrimination and can only admire the serenity with which Mr. Kalb dispenses with justifications. In this book, he accepts the natural order, dissects the horrors that result from denying it, and speculates on how the current madness will end. Against Inclusiveness is rich in insights and arresting formulations.
Mr. Kalb is Catholic, and this colors his views. His arguments therefore leave room for religion, but they almost never require it, so this book can be read profitably by anyone.
The natural order
Until very recently what is called “sexism,” “homophobia,” or “racism” was simple common sense. Our rulers invented these words as a way to force us to ignore essential distinctions. Mr. Kalb explains why this is wrong . . .
Left to themselves, people associate with those who suit them best. Mr. Kalb calls discrimination of this kind “clearly rational,” arguing that government interference in our choices is always oppressive. If there were no laws against discrimination, people who want to work or live together would find each other, and everyone would be happier. . . .
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