Thu, April 24, 2025

What We Got from Pope Francis

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms In honor of the passing of the Pope, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the life of Francis and the theology which he embodied: the theology of peoples. They also discuss Rocco Buttiglione's new book Modernity's Alternative and how Latin America formed the Pope's pastoral life and mission. Modernity's Alternative is now available for order! Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, April 10, 2025

Technocracy and the Vital Force in Man | Matthew Crawford

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms At the 2024 New Polity conference, Matthew B. Crawford gave the keynote address in which he contrasted the view of man inherent in technocratic rationalism with that of a Christian view. Drawing from the work of Joseph Ratzinger and Michael Oakeshott, Crawford draws a distinction between an orientation toward receiving life as gift and cramped rationalism that views man as an object to be synthetically remade. The current push for technocratic control over every sphere of life collapses the vertical order of reality and aims to eliminate contingency, risk, and play. In contrast, one who affirms the inherent goodness of being is able to experience a real vitality of life in a meaningful world. Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, April 03, 2025

Modernity's Alternative and Theology of the Peoples

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms In the 20th century, a movement of priests and laypeople sought to find a way past the clash of ideologies that wracked Latin America. They found a solution in Latin America itself, which was born out of the conflict between Europeans and natives when, with the appearance of the Virgin Mary at Guadalupe, the grace of God forged one, new people out of strangers and enemies.This movement—called “theology of peoples”—focuses on the reality known as “a people.” Every human person belongs to a people. And every people has a “world”: the way it makes sense out of life, work, love, and the uncertain future. In this podcast, Reuben Slife and Marc Barnes discuss Modernity's Alternative by Rocco Buttiglione. Pre-order of Modernity's Alternative is now available! Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, March 20, 2025

What is a Nation?

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms What is the difference between a people and a nation? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Ernest Renan's influential lecture "What is a nation?". Renan argues that a nation is not formed by common descent, language, religion, or geography. Rather, a nation is a spiritual principle that requires sacrifice, and a forgetting of the past. Marc and Alex discuss Renan's definition of a nation and how it formed the development of nation states in the modern period. Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Ernest Renan's lecture can be found here : Check out Marc's essay " National Forgetting " Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, March 13, 2025

The Heroic Life of St. Thomas More

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms In this special episode of Political Saints, Marc Barnes and Nicolas McAfee discuss the heroic political life of St. Thomas More. Thomas More was the Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529 until 1531. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and was executed. Pope Pius XI canonized Thomas More as a martyr in 1935. Dr. Nicolas McAfee is the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Center for Thomas More Studies. He is the author of Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way out of the Wreck (Lexington, forthcoming). You can find more on Thomas More Studies here: https://thomasmorestudies.org/ Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, March 06, 2025

Subsidiarity: How to Dismantle the Bureaucratic State

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms For the last five years, the Political Right has been debating over a program for regime change in America: should populism be used to construct a new elite class? Should a new administration retire all government employees? Can the bureaucratic state be maintained but filled with new conservative staff? In this podcast, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss subsidiarity as the solution to this debate, and how it provides a program for genuine regime change. Get Dr. Andrew Jones' new book The Church Against the State . Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, February 27, 2025

The Unity of the Nations | Joseph Ratzinger

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms What is the meaning of national identity? Does strong national identity necessarily create a hostile relation with other nations? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Joseph Ratzinger's short book "The Unity of Nations." Through a discussion of the political theology of Origen and St. Augustine, Ratzinger shows how the early Christians viewed their relation to the nations, and Christianity's nation-unifying gospel. Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! Join the conversation on our Discord

Thu, February 06, 2025

The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's book "The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood." What is distinct about the brotherhood of Christians? Are there different ethical modes of acting to the brother and the non-brother? How does this impact our understanding of peoples and Christianity? The book is available from Ignatius press : Subscribe to New Polity Magazine ! https://newpolity.com/magazine Join the conversation on our Discord : https://discord.gg/bNJ2uE7as6 Read more of New Polity

Thu, January 16, 2025

The Future is Always Worse Than You Think | Andrew Willard Jones

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Are we headed to a grand and glorious technological future? In this talk, Andrew Willard Jones expects the opposite: "The Future is Always Worse Than You Think It Will Be." As he explains, there are two paths with the development on new technologies: one which leads to an extension of the humane world into greater areas, and another, the technocratic, which closes and mines the world from within. This talk was given at the 2024 New Polity Conference "Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers?" Registration is open now for New Polity's 2025 conference "Our Kind of People." The early bird price ends on January 31st. Register today at https://newpolity.com/events

Thu, January 09, 2025

The Case for Sex Discrimination | Mag Review 5.3

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Registration for New Polity 2025 conference is now open! Don't miss out on our early bird price: https://newpolity.com/events/2025 In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley review the latest New Polity Magazine, Issue 5.3, which includes articles on sex discrimination in the workplace, the demise of the hippocratic oath, the state of the pro-life movement, and more. New Polity Issue 5.3 is available for order at https://newpolity.com/single-issues?c... Subscribe for all our best essays: https://newpolity.com/magazine Join the conversation on our Discord: https://discord.gg/bNJ2uE7as6

Thu, December 19, 2024

Our Kind of People | New Polity 2025

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Register here for New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People The fifth annual New Polity conference takes “the people” as its theme and object of wonder. Motivated by the apparent victory of populism in the United States’ 2024 election, and inspired by the Holy Roman Pontiff’s love for Latin America’s “theology of the people,” this meeting of theologians, philosophers (and, let’s face it, preachers ) is devoted to thinking deeply about "the people." What makes us a people? Is it blood? Is it language? Is it love? Violent assertion? A shared history? Is the United States "a people"? How do "a people" get formed out of a mass, a crowd, a mob, a family, a village? And where does God enter into all of this? Does the Church, the universal People of God, negate or embrace the particular peoples that it liberates and saves? Can nationalism be redeemed? What about folk music? All of this is up for discussion and debate, the subject of our good humor and great conversation at New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People.

Fri, December 06, 2024

The Church Against the State | Andrew Willard Jones

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Pre-order The Church Against the State . The Church sees the world as God’s good and harmonious Creation, a primordial peace. In his acclaimed book Before Church and State, Andrew Willard Jones revealed that society in the High Middle Ages was a striving toward liberation by grace, which led to subsidiarity. In The Church Against the State, he argues that this uniquely Christian political form is still with us, present in our love, our courage, and in all that is noble within us, brought to new life through the Church. In this podcast, Marc Barnes interviews Andrew Willard Jones on his new book The Church Against the State. <img data-stretch="false" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png" data-image-dimensions="3816x1707" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png?format=1000w" width="3816" height="1707" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc3557b1239/Jones+Blue+Logo.png?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb7cb2193a632487214565f/82dfea47-3b70-46dd-895c-4cc

Thu, December 05, 2024

The New Political Right: Pagan or Christian?

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms All the energy and vitality today is on the political right; the old conservative reactionary stance has been replaced with active, rival voices aimed at constructing a new regime. One such voice is Bronze Age Pervert and his followers. Through their series "The Politics of Paganism," Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones have explored the Nietzschean proposal, arguing that it is doomed to failure. The pagan cosmos is a closed world which cannot provide the freedom and vitality that Nietzsche extols. In this final episode, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss the failure of the Nietzschean alternative and the open world of a Christian political order. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Thu, November 21, 2024

Restoring Freedom: The New Law of Grace

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Why do we not feel free? As modern liberalism continues to isolate and divide, our common experience is a lack of freedom, of being constrained and enslaved. But, how can true freedom be restored? In this episode of the Politics of Paganism, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss the New Law and how grace restores true freedom. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Thu, October 31, 2024

Aquinas on Salvation History: From Moses to Christ

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms St. Thomas Aquinas presents salvation history in three stages: The Age of Nature, the Age of Law, and the Age of Grace. The pagans are stuck within the age of nature; fallen humanity inevitably declines into idolatry and slavery. But, God has a plan for saving man. From the time of Moses until Christ, God's chosen people are in the Age of Law which points forward to the coming of Christ. In this podcast, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss salvation history and the culmination of the Age of Law in the Cross. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Thu, October 17, 2024

Aquinas on Law: The Open World of Grace

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The pagan cosmos is a closed world: the city is never truly self-sufficient, requiring natural slaves and war; regimes rise and fall cyclically; the regime's justice is never true justice. In the Treatise on Law (ST I-II, Q.90-108), St. Thomas Aquinas presents a different vision: the open world of grace. God orders the world through the eternal law; rational creatures participate in providence through human law; divine law is necessary to bring man to his final end. In this episode of the Politics of Paganism, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss how St. Thomas' vision of law answers the closed world of the pagans. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Thu, October 03, 2024

The End of Politics: Temple Slave States

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Plato and Aristotle argue that aristocracy is the ideal regime, but it never lasts for long. What's most powerful wins, and the masses are always the most powerful in number. Eventually, every pagan regime declines into the production of idols and temple slavery---whether Egypt, Greece, or Rome. In this episode of the Politics of Paganism, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss this decline and what brings it about. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Fri, September 27, 2024

The Dark Reality of Medical Aid in Dying

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Medically-assisted suicide bills are being introduced in states all over the country. Proponents say that it allows people to "die with dignity" and that it gives people "autonomy." But, the actual reality is far darker. In states like Oregon and California, people have been denied life-saving treatment and recommended suicide. People with disabilities and depression have been pressured into suicide. In this podcast, Pat McGeehan, delegate of West Virginia, Marc Barnes, and Alex Denley discuss the dangers of legalized medically-assisted suicide. Op-Eds on Medical-assisted suicide by Pat McGeehan: "Us vs. Them" "Medically-assisted suicide destroys hope" The National Council on Disability Report " The Danger of Assisted Suicide Laws"

Thu, September 19, 2024

Aristotle's Politics: Natural Slaves and the One True Statesman

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Aristotle's "Politics" is full of deep insight: politics as the architectonic science, the mixed constitution, happiness as the end of the city. But, there's a group which is excluded from human virtue; namely, the natural slave. Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss how the "natural slave" reveals the structure of Aristotle's just city: a limited class of citizens over an unspecified amount of slaves. And, that the despotic relationship extends into the mixed constitution of the citizens. The masses believe they are ruling in a democracy, the notables believe they are ruling an oligarchy, and the one, true philosopher-statesman rules the whole; each class instrumentalizes the other. They discuss how this doesn't vilify Aristotle, or presume nefarious intentions; this is what a science of a pagan political order demands. Ultimately, it is this structure that Christianity transforms from both within and above. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Fri, August 30, 2024

The 401k Story: A Deep Dive with Its Inventor, Ted Benna

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Ted Benna has been called the "Father of the 401k." But now, he says that he created a monster. He intended for the 401 (k) to help turn spenders into savers, but it has become full of hidden fees and salary reductions that only enrich the financial industry rather than savers. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam interview Ted Benna for his story of the 401 (k). Essays by New Polity on Money " Should Christians Invest in the Stock Market? " “ Replies to Mr. Horn's Objections " " Render to God " " Should Men Retire? " Don't miss out on great essays. Subscribe to New Polity magazine.

Thu, August 22, 2024

The James Donald Forbes McCann Good Money Plan | Cash, Stocks, and the Marital Debt

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms James Donald Forbes McCann returns for a special episode of Good Money. He has more questions for Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes: Why do Americans use cash? What's the marital debt? Why should people sell their stocks? More of James Donald Forbes McCann . Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ . Join the conversation over at Discord .

Thu, August 08, 2024

The Vicious Circle: Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Plato presents a vicious circle that every regime goes through: from a limited aristocracy, to a timocracy of honor, an oligarchy based on wealth, a democracy based on liberty, and, finally, the tyranny of the one against all. While some regimes may be more just than others, it is bound to collapse eventually. Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss Plato's description of the individual and his regime, the circle of regimes, and how Christianity can provide an answer to the circle. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Join the conversation over at Discord .

Thu, July 25, 2024

Shadows of Justice | A Close Reading of Plato's Republic

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Everyone has a sense of what is just and unjust, but what is the source of justice? In this episode of "The Politics of Paganism," Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss Plato's "Republic." Through a discussion of the luxurious city, the myth of the mixture of the elements, the Allegory of the Cave, and finally the Philosopher-King, Alex and Andrew show the tension in Plato between relative and absolute justice; between the shadows of justice in the city and true justice that the philosopher contemplates. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠

Thu, July 11, 2024

The Problem of Death and the City of Man

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Death comes for everyone. For the Christian, death is the passage into eternal life; but, what about for the Pagan? Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss the problem of death for pagan regimes. Using St. Augustine's "City of God," they discuss Cain's murder of Abel, the founding of the city by violence, the inferior law of violence, and the overturning of death by Christ. If you want to read ahead, next up is Plato's "Republic." Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! ⁠https://newpolity.com/magazine⁠

Thu, June 27, 2024

The New Paganism and the Rise of the Nietzscheans

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms As the liberal order continues to collapse, rival voices have gained popularity—groups that aren’t content secularizing religion, but rejecting Christianity altogether. Old pagan arguments are resurrecting: the aesthetics of power, might-makes-right, vitalism and tyranny. Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss their new series “The Politics of Paganism” and how Christianity can understand and defeat the pagan attacks against it. If you’d like to read ahead for the series: 1. Selections from the City of God by St. Augustine 2. The Republic by Plato 3. The Politics by Aristotle 4. Laws by Cicero 5. The Treatise on Law by St. Thomas Aquinas Subscribe to New Polity magazine !

Thu, June 20, 2024

Gendered Language and Pronouns | Season 2 Q&A

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Gender season 2 has come to a close. Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell answer your questions and discuss the second season of Gender. Subscribe to New Polity magazine:

Thu, May 30, 2024

America and the Inversion of Tyranny | Magazine 5.1 Review

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Subscribe to New Polity magazine ! Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss the latest New Polity magazine, Issue 5.1. Articles include D. C. Schindler on totalitarianism and America, a debate on the stock market, Marc on the medieval practice of sanctuary, and more.

Thu, May 16, 2024

Gender in a Pornographic World

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Marc and Maria discuss how the Third-Person perspective of pornography changes the way we view sexual difference. Spots are still open for the New Polity conference! Register soon at https://newpolity.com/events

Mon, April 29, 2024

Fighting Against Legalized Euthanasia | West Virginia Delegate Pat McGeehan

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Euthanasia is becoming legalized across the Western world. Pat McGeehan, Delegate of West Virginia, is fighting against it. Advocates employ slogans like “death with dignity,” and appeal to compassion; but, the actual results are much different. Already, a “suicide tourism” phenomenon has begun, with people flying to states like Oregon to get legal doctor-assisted suicide. Pat tells a story of one of his constituents who, tragically, was a victim of this. Likewise, Canada’s MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) program has resulted in the deaths of over 40,000 people since 2016; with legislation only being passed recently to curb the amount of suicide tourism. By legalizing euthanasia, the door is open for gross misuse: the elderly who feel they are a burden to their children could be pressured into an untimely death, people with treatable illnesses could elect to end their lives, hospitals and health insurance providers could increase euthanasia recommendations to patients to decrease costs. But, Pat is fighting for the dignity of his constituents in West Virginia. Euthanasia denies the dignity of the person; Pat is working to uphold that dignity by constitutionally banning euthanasia in the state of West Virginia. Don't miss out on great essays. Subscribe to New Polity magazine.

Thu, April 18, 2024

Abortion and the Control of the Body | Part 2

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Marc and Maria continue their conversation on Humanae Vitae; specifically on the desire to control the body and its reproduction through abortion. They discuss how abortion not only plays the function of the killing of innocent children, but reshapes the experience of the body as such. This episode is part 2 of a conversation on the Control of the Body. Listen to part 1 here : ----- READINGS Contraception, Abortion Episode (I-II) Donum Vitae: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19870222_respect-for-human-life_en.html (All hail the parchment background) Humanae Vitae: https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html (All mourn the loss of the parchment background)

Thu, April 04, 2024

Contraception and the Control of the Body | Part 1

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Maria and Marc read Humanae Vitae, the Catholic Church's decisive rejection of contraception, as a text which prophesies and makes sense out of the meaninglessness we ascribe to our male and female bodies today. This episode is part 1 of a conversation on the Control of the Body. Listen to part 2 here : Subscribe to New Polity magazine: https://newpolity.com/magazine Come to our conference! https://newpolity.com/events READINGS ------------------ Introductory Episode We don’t have any readings for our introduction, but it may be helpful to give Gender, by Ivan Illich, a read, to get hip to a medieval/pre-industrial vision of Gender. Here’s a pdf: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra... Capitalism We are reading Silvia Federici’s “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” in her book “Caliban and the Witch,” which is available in our magazine, Issue 4.4: https://newpolity.com/single-issues/i... But if you are POOR or CHEAP here’s a pdf. The essay in question starts on pg. 60: <a href="https://www.yout

Thu, March 28, 2024

America's Decline into Paganism | John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms America is sinking into pagan practices and beliefs. While Americans may not use the same language as the ancient pagans, John Daniel Davidson believes that the central pagan creed is present: there is no truth, everything is permitted. Liberalism had attempted to create neutral spaces, but as those spaces become more fought over, the only rationale can be one's own power. Dr. Andrew Willard Jones and John Daniel Davidson discuss the roots of a pagan worldview, the extent to which America is pagan, and how Christians should approach the pagan political order. Get his book “Pagan America” . Don't miss out on great essays. Subscribe to New Polity magazine.

Thu, March 21, 2024

Gender in a Big Beige World

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Everywhere is beige. The same beige houses, the same big box department stores, even the exact same food is served everywhere all across the country. What has this monotone sameness done to produce our cultural moment - one that seems to glorify diversity on the one hand, but ship it out en masse with the other? Join Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell as they explore our desaturated modern world and why we look to gender for the way out. Come to our Conference! Don't miss out on great essays. Subscribe to New Polity magazine.

Thu, March 07, 2024

No More Virgins. What Protestantism Takes From Gender.

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms We don't know what to do with consecrated virginity. The only way we can think of it as a disembodied spiritual calling; or as a fairly strange alternative to what is normal, marriage. Marc and Maria describe how Protestantism (and, in particular, Luther) denied the purpose of the virgin. Come to our Conference! https://newpolity.com/events/2024 Don't miss out on great essays. Subscribe to New Polity magazine. https://newpolity.com/magazine ------------ Readings No More Virgins. What Protestantism Takes From Gender. We are reading Martin Luther condemning virginity, not because he was the only guy to do it, but because (a) he has a flair for exhortations and (b) we had to pick someone. The point is to understand how what had been an unquestioned symbol of perfection in Christendom is now being characterized as a merely individual calling. The only free source for this exhortation in English appears to be this pretty intense website: https://www.godrules.net/library/luth... If you need an example of previous Christian enthusiasm for virginity, try https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/290...

Tue, February 27, 2024

The Gender Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Modern economics takes the wage for granted, but during the feudal era, working for a wage was considered a sign of poverty. What changed? And how did this shift in economics shift gender roles? Join Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell as they discuss how capitalism rewrote our modern conception of gender. Subscribe to the greatest magazine on earth: https://newpolity.com/magazine New Polity Conference 2024: https://newpolity.com/events/2024

Thu, February 08, 2024

It's 2024 and Gender is Still a Problem

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Welcome to the Politics of Gender Season 2! Gender remains a hotly contested issue: gender constructionists and biological reductionists in an all out warfare. But, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell argue that the Church can surpass these debates, and provide a way of understanding one's sex beyond imposed identities or brute facts. Subscribe to the greatest magazine on earth: https://newpolity.com/magazine New Polity Conference 2024: https://newpolity.com/events/2024

Thu, January 18, 2024

The Complete Gendered World of The Boys | Magazine 4.4 Review

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Join the hundreds of other New Polity readers: ⁠newpolity.com/magazine⁠ Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell take another look at the "you complete me" narrative. Is each person's gender an incomplete half, left in lack of the other? Or, is each person complete as their gender and called to join with the other? In defense of completed gendered worlds, Marc talks about the phenomenon of The Boys and The Girls. Gender Season 2 is coming soon! The first two readings will be from issue 4.4 (Silvia Federici's "Accumulation of Labor" and D. C. Schindler's "Perfect Difference"). You can grab a copy of the magazine at ⁠newpolity.com/single-issues

Sat, December 30, 2023

We Survived Another Year | 2023 Wrap-up

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Happy New Year! Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam take a look back at New Polity in 2023. This year, New Polity hosted its 3rd annual conference, officially launched the College of St. Joseph the Worker, and put out four new additions of the magazine. They also talk about upcoming podcast series in 2024, as well as some exciting books that will release in the new year. Early Bird pricing for the 2024 New Polity conference ends January 1st! Register here

Thu, December 14, 2023

Announcing The College of St. Joseph The Worker | Starting Fall 2024

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Mike Sullivan and Jacob Imam are excited to announce that the College of St. Joseph is now state approved and accepting students for Fall 2024. The College's mission is to teach students a trade, provide a liberal arts education, and graduate them without crippling debt. Learn more about the College here

Thu, November 16, 2023

Should We, Therefore, Destroy The Servers? | Announcing New Polity Conference 2024

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Check out our lineup of speakers and register here https://newpolity.com/events/2024 Announcing the 4th Annual New Polity Conference, Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers? In this podcast, Marc Barnes, Jacob Imam, and Andrew Jones discuss the role of technology on our lives, the pursuit of a technology for power, and how Christians should approach technology.

Thu, October 12, 2023

Make Your City Beautiful | Good Cities

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman answer your most pressing question: what are we to do? Drawing from their experiences in Chattanooga and Steubenville, they describe how small bets they made on city improvement have produced big results. Institutional barriers (bad city councils, HOA's, and local laws) can be an impediment to change, but there's still hope. Virtuous friends, with a passion for a better life, can revitalize even a decaying city. Welcome to the series finale of Good Cities! Good Cities Livestream Q&A will be on Thursday Oct 19th at 8PM EST. Submit a question in the comments below! Please consider donating to help us make more. 📖 We have a Magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. 🌐 Join the conversation on our Discord.

Thu, October 05, 2023

Your City Was Badly Planned | Good Cities

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The best of New Polity delivered to your door four times a year. Subscribe now and get 30% off all back issues https://newpolity.com/magazine Are we drowning in too much city plans? Or do we just have bad plans? Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman argue that good city planning can solve many of our issues. Although developers and "experts" have caused weird and unsustainable developments, they discuss how local cities can retake planning their city. On the docket: imperial zoning laws, detached property owners, transient residencies, automobiles (again), minimum parking laws, and encouraging organic area planning.

Thu, September 28, 2023

Return to the Land or Revitalize the City? | Good Cities

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Breezy paradisal reading delivered to your door 4 times a year. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine today and get 30% off all back issues. Should we flee to the Land or revitalize the City? Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how the battle between land and city is a false dichotomy. Each is dependent on the other and both are essential to renewal. They also discuss how the modern city has divorced these ways of life: making the land a commodity to extract resources and the modern city a scattered suburban sprawl. Also, the financial cost of these poorly planned cities has led to urban decay and flight to newer cities. But, there is a plan that the Church has for making cities beautiful and connecting with the land. Join the conversation on our Discord .

Thu, September 21, 2023

Driving Through The Ruins | Good Cities

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms In this episode of Good Cities, it's time to get mad at cars...again. Cars were promised to be freedom on wheels, but most people experience driving as forced upon them; monotonous, traffic-ridden, and expensive. Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how cars have made us slow, anxious, and separated from each other. Our cities once were bustling downtowns, and now they're a series of parking lots and crisscrossed highways. Also in this episode: what to do to remedy the impact of the car on cities and how to oppose the car for a better city. Welcome to Car Wars 2. Check out our magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. Visit https://www.newpolity.com/magazine

Thu, September 14, 2023

How Cars Became King

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms We have a magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. Visit newpolity.com/magazine It's time to get mad about cars. In this episode of Good Cities, Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman discuss how cars have reshaped the city. How did cars become necessary for life? How did the American government implement a car-centered society? How has the rise of suburbia impacted our cities? Welcome to Car Wars (...part 1)!

Thu, September 07, 2023

Is the City Worth Saving? | Good Cities w/ Nathan Bird & Jacob Hyman

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms We have a magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. Welcome to our new series Good Cities! In this episode, engineers Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman describe the nature of the city. What is a city? Are cities places of sin? What is the purpose of the city? Is there a rivalry between farm and city? How have we built our cities in America? How can we make our cities better?

Fri, August 25, 2023

The Royal Monarch Who Became a Saint w/ Andrew Willard Jones

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms In this episode of political saints, Andrew Willard Jones, author of "Before Church and State", discusses the life of King St. Louis IX. Dr. Jones shows how Louis fulfilled his role as king within his role as laity. Instead of the modern way of viewing Church and State as in tension with one another, King Louis saw himself as a lay member of the Church sanctifying the temporal order. Get Dr. Jones’ Book here: Before Church and State Please consider donating to help us make more. 📖 We have a Magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. 🌐 Join the conversation on our Discord .

Fri, August 11, 2023

The Rise of Bourgeois Society | Magazine 4.2 Review

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The new magazine is out now! Issue 4.2 includes essays and reviews by Andrew Willard Jones, Thomas Storck, Michael Higgins, and more. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss the highlights from New Polity Magazine 4.2, including the rise of bourgeois society by Christopher Dawson, critiques of the stock market by John Medaille, and more. Subscribe to the magazine today and get 30% off all back issues! Visit https://www.newpolity.com/magazine Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Thu, August 03, 2023

Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Eric Brende is the author of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, which describes his experience of living with the Amish. Marc and Eric discuss the role of technology, the aesthetic of homesteading versus urbanism, and how to approach mechanized life. Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Thu, July 20, 2023

Money for the Common Good w/ Jon Blevins

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Jon Blevins is back with a discussion with Jacob Imam on money. Can a Catholic be wealthy? Should publicly traded companies exist? How can we enact a truly Catholic economy? Subscribe to our magazine: https://newpolity.com/magazine Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Help us make more: https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Thu, July 06, 2023

The State of the Working Class

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Sam Pearson and Marc Barnes discuss the industrial transformation of the working class and its effects. Is this change sustainable in the long term? How can we renew a culture of good work? Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

S7 E4 · Tue, June 27, 2023

Political Saints: Bl. Clemens von Galen

S8 E4 · Thu, June 08, 2023

Good Soil: Milk

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S8 E3 · Thu, May 25, 2023

Good Soil: Why You Should Garden

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Marc Barnes and the Dougherty's make the case for the garden as the missing vocation of man and a way to pit God's superabundance against modernity's presumption of scarcity. Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

S8 E2 · Fri, May 19, 2023

Good Soil: How to Garden

Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Dougherty's, after bearing up well under an initial rant from Marc Barnes about egg-costs, lend us all the wisdom and practical knowledge they've gleaned from the garden Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

S8 E1 · Fri, May 19, 2023

Issue 4.1 Review

S7 E3 · Sat, April 15, 2023

Political Saints: St. Catherine of Sienna

"Be who you should be and you will set the world on fire." Today, Jacob Imam and Maria Brandell explore the life of Catherine of Siena - a passionate Italian woman known for her mystical wisdom and saintly political action. Find out what she has to say - concerning the soul, the corruption of Church leaders, and even the crusades.

S6 E6 · Fri, March 31, 2023

Political Saints: Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

The Nazis decapitated Bl. Franz Jägerstätter for refusing to take the oath to Hitler. In hindsight, everyone can recognize his bravery and integrity. At the time, no one could. Jacob Imam and Reuben Slife are convinced most of us would have caved. See how Bl. Franz didn't.

S6 E6 · Fri, March 17, 2023

Political Saints: Blessed Alcuin of York

S6 E6 · Thu, March 02, 2023

Kings All The Way Down

S6 E5 · Fri, February 17, 2023

Throwback Thursday: Socialism is not Catholic

S6 E6 · Fri, February 10, 2023

Throwback Thursday: Nationalism is not Catholic

S6 E5 · Fri, February 03, 2023

Bonus Episode: The Technology Issue (3.4)

S6 E4 · Sat, January 21, 2023

New Polity: Pope Benedict Special

S6 E4 · Thu, January 19, 2023

Throwback Thursday: Liberalism and Libertarianism is not Catholic

S6 E3 · Tue, December 27, 2022

Christmas Special II

S6 E2 · Fri, December 23, 2022

Throwback Thursday: The Political Christ

S6 E1 · Thu, December 22, 2022

Throwback Thursday: Creation is Political

S5 E14 · Tue, November 29, 2022

Good Money: Season Wrap Up

S5 E13 · Wed, November 23, 2022

Good Money Special: The Christian Commonwealth

S5 E13 · Tue, November 15, 2022

Good Money Special: Scott Hahn

S5 E12 · Wed, November 09, 2022

Good Money: The Invention of Capitalism

The Invention of Capitalism: https://bit.ly/3Ujvgde

S5 E11 · Thu, November 03, 2022

Good Money: Christian v Pagan Perspectives on Money.

Citations: Jerome, Letter to Demetriades PL [22: 1118] Bon., AP, VII.36, Augustine, Retractions 12.26 2 Clement 20:4 from The Apostolic Father Leo I, Letter 167 PL [54:1206] Chrysostom "Homily 27 on John" PG Chrysostom: Sur l'incomprehensibilte de Dieu Theo., El. Pm., 1117-1118 (Loeb edn.)

S5 E10 · Tue, October 25, 2022

Funn Money: Special Guest James Donald Forbes McCann

S5 E9 · Tue, October 18, 2022

Good Money: Poverty

S5 E8 · Tue, October 11, 2022

Good Money: Student Loan Forgiveness

S5 E7 · Tue, October 04, 2022

Good Money: Money Sayings

S5 E6 · Tue, September 27, 2022

Good Money: Luxury

S5 E5 · Tue, September 20, 2022

Good Money: Should We Charge Interest on Loans?

S5 E4 · Mon, September 12, 2022

Good Money: Investing Part 2, The Vice of Speculation

S5 E3 · Tue, August 30, 2022

Good Money: Investing Part 1, The Virtue of Beneficence

S5 E2 · Thu, August 25, 2022

Good Money: Simony

S5 E1 · Sat, August 20, 2022

Good Money: Tithing

S4 E25 · Wed, August 03, 2022

Milk

S4 E24 · Wed, July 27, 2022

Hierarchy and Compost

S4 E23 · Tue, July 19, 2022

We Have Stopped Inventing New Technology w/ Gladden Pappin

S4 E22 · Tue, July 12, 2022

Local Power

S4 E21 · Wed, July 06, 2022

Free States vs. Murder States

S4 E20 · Tue, June 21, 2022

Announcing the College of St. Joseph the Worker

S4 E19 · Tue, June 14, 2022

Why I Converted From the Alt Right

S4 E17 · Tue, May 24, 2022

Primal Androgyny | The Politics of Gender

S4 E16 · Wed, May 18, 2022

Illich Part 4: The End of Gender | The Politics of Gender

S4 E15 · Tue, May 10, 2022

Illich Part 3: Spime Blocks | The Politics of Gender

S4 E14 · Tue, May 03, 2022

Illich Part 2: The Reign of Gendered Worlds | The Politics of Gender

S4 E13 · Thu, April 28, 2022

Illich Part 1: Sex, Gender, and Shadow Work | The Politics of Gender

S4 E12 · Tue, April 19, 2022

Eastertide and Gender Book Club | The Politics of Gender

S4 E11 · Tue, April 12, 2022

Aquinas on Gender Construction? | The Politics of Gender

S4 E10 · Fri, April 08, 2022

Inclusive Nihilism: Can Liberalism and Queer Theory Work? | The Politics of Gender

S4 E9 · Tue, March 22, 2022

The Steubenville Workshop & Ramblings on a Theology of Work