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| The 401k Story: A Deep Dive with Its Inventor, Ted Benna | 30 Aug 2024 | ||
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). | |||
| The James Donald Forbes McCann Good Money Plan | Cash, Stocks, and the Marital Debt | 22 Aug 2024 | ||
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?
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| Abortion and the Control of the Body | Part 2 | 18 Apr 2024 | ||
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.
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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) | |||
| Contraception and the Control of the Body | Part 1 | 04 Apr 2024 | ||
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.
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| America's Decline into Paganism | John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist | 28 Mar 2024 | ||
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. | |||
| Gender in a Big Beige World | 21 Mar 2024 | ||
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.
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| No More Virgins. What Protestantism Takes From Gender. | 07 Mar 2024 | ||
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. | |||
| The Gender Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism | 27 Feb 2024 | ||
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.
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| It's 2024 and Gender is Still a Problem | 08 Feb 2024 | ||
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.
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| The Complete Gendered World of The Boys | Magazine 4.4 Review | 18 Jan 2024 | ||
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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 https://newpolity.com/single-issues | |||
| We Survived Another Year | 2023 Wrap-up | 30 Dec 2023 | ||
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: https://newpolity.com/events | |||
| Announcing The College of St. Joseph the Worker | Starting Fall 2024 | 14 Dec 2023 | ||
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 at https://collegeofstjoseph.com | |||
| The Vicious Circle: Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny | 08 Aug 2024 | ||
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.
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| Should We, Therefore, Destroy The Servers? | Announcing New Polity Conference 2024 | 16 Nov 2023 | ||
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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.
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| Make Your City Beautiful | Good Cities | 12 Oct 2023 | ||
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! | |||
| Your City Was Badly Planned | Good Cities | 05 Oct 2023 | ||
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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. | |||
| Return to the Land or Revitalize the City? | Good Cities | 28 Sep 2023 | ||
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.
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| Driving Through The Ruins | Good Cities | 21 Sep 2023 | ||
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.
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| How Cars Became King | Good Cities | 14 Sep 2023 | ||
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)! | |||
| Is The City Worth Saving? | Good Cities w/ Nathan Bird & Jacob Hyman | 07 Sep 2023 | ||
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? | |||
| The Royal Monarch Who Became a Saint | 25 Aug 2023 | ||
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. | |||
| The Rise of Bourgeois Society | Magazine 4.2 Review | 11 Aug 2023 | ||
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.
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| Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende | 03 Aug 2023 | ||
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. | |||
| Shadows of Justice | A Close Reading of Plato's Republic | 25 Jul 2024 | ||
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.
If you want to read ahead, next up is Plato's "Republic." | |||
| Money and the Common Good w/ Jon Blevins | 20 Jul 2023 | ||
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?
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| Working Class Blues | 06 Jul 2023 | ||
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? | |||
| Political Saints: Bl. Clemens von Galen | 27 Jun 2023 | ||
| Good Soil: Milk | 08 Jun 2023 | ||
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| Good Soil: Why You Should Garden | 25 May 2023 | ||
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| Good Soil: How to Garden | 19 May 2023 | ||
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| Issue 4.1 Review | 19 May 2023 | ||
| Political Saints: St. Catherine of Sienna | 15 Apr 2023 | ||
"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. | |||
| Political Saints: Blessed Franz Jägerstätter | 31 Mar 2023 | 01:34:37 | |
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. | |||
| Political Saints: Blessed Alcuin of York | 17 Mar 2023 | 01:34:37 | |
| The Problem of Death and the City of Man | 11 Jul 2024 | ||
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." | |||
| Kings All The Way Down | 02 Mar 2023 | 01:34:37 | |
| Throwback Thursday: Socialism is not Catholic | 17 Feb 2023 | 00:35:17 | |
| Throwback Thursday: Nationalism is not Catholic | 10 Feb 2023 | ||
| Bonus Episode: The Technology Issue (3.4) | 03 Feb 2023 | ||
| New Polity: Pope Benedict Special | 21 Jan 2023 | ||
| Throwback Thursday: Liberalism and Libertarianism is not Catholic | 19 Jan 2023 | ||
| Christmas Special II | 27 Dec 2022 | ||
| Throwback Thursday: The Political Christ | 23 Dec 2022 | ||
| Throwback Thursday: Creation is Political | 22 Dec 2022 | ||
| Good Money: Season Wrap Up | 29 Nov 2022 | ||
| The New Paganism and the Rise of the Nietzscheans | 27 Jun 2024 | ||
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. | |||
| Good Money Special: The Christian Commonwealth | 23 Nov 2022 | ||
| Good Money Special: Scott Hahn | 15 Nov 2022 | ||
| Good Money: The Invention of Capitalism | 09 Nov 2022 | ||
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| Good Money: Christian and Pagan Perspectives on Money. | 03 Nov 2022 | ||
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.) | |||
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