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Fighting Against Legalized Euthanasia | West Virginia Delegate Pat McGeehan

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”...

Abortion and the Control of the Body | Part 2

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...

Contraception and the Control of the Body | Part 1

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. Subscribe to New Polity magazine: https://newpolity.com/magazine Come...

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

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...

Gender in a Big Beige World

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...

No More Virgins. What Protestantism Takes From Gender.

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,...

The Gender Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

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...

It's 2024 and Gender is Still a Problem

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...

The Complete Gendered World of The Boys | Magazine 4.4 Review

Join the hundreds of other New Polity readers: ⁠https://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...

We Survived Another Year | 2023 Wrap-up

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

Make Your City Beautiful | Good Cities

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...

Your City Was Badly Planned | Good Cities

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...

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

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...

Driving Through The Ruins | Good Cities

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 Became King | Good Cities

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...

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

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...

The Royal Monarch Who Became a Saint

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 Rise of Bourgeois Society | Magazine 4.2 Review

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...

Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende

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...

Money and the Common Good w/ Jon Blevins

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? We have a magazine!--- https://newpolity.com/magazine Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Or help us make...

Working Class Blues

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

Good Soil: Milk

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Good Soil: Why You Should Garden

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Good Soil: How to Garden

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Issue 4.1 Review

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....

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...

Political Saints: Blessed Alcuin of York

Blessed Alcuin of York—the dearest advisor to Emperor Charlamagne, the learned founder of Cathedral schools, and the august inventor of the question mark—teaches us that the greatest politicians are the greatest saints. Join Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes as they...

Kings All The Way Down

How does an oligarchical society avoid falling down the tyrannical toilet? In this episode, Dr. Andrew Willard Jones and Dr. Alex Plato examine Plato's regime forms and the modern tendency to take the "tyrannical regime" as its formal baseline (including...

Throwback Thursday: Socialism is not Catholic

What makes socialism the greatest Catholic heresy? Check out this final episode of Throwback Thursday to hear Andrew Willard Jones and Jacob Imam discuss the deadly brilliance of socialism: what makes it so attractive, and how even its deepest insights...

Throwback Thursday: Nationalism is not Catholic

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Bonus Episode: The Technology Issue (3.4)

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New Polity: Pope Benedict Special

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Throwback Thursday: Liberalism and Libertarianism is not Catholic

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Christmas Special II

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Throwback Thursday: The Political Christ

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Throwback Thursday: Creation is Political

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Good Money: Season Wrap Up

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Good Money Special: The Christian Commonwealth

Skyler Kressin and Rodger Tindall join Jacob and Marc to discuss the village, the city, and what a Christian commonwealth looks like. Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Good Money Special: Scott Hahn

Special Guest Scott Hahn joins Jacob to discuss the Israelite Jubilee year laid out in Leviticus and what we can learn from it. Including what claims God is making with the rules he lays down and how that ought...

Good Money: The Invention of Capitalism

Jacob and Marc discuss the different views on money between early Christians and Pagan cultures. Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Good Money: Christian and Pagan Perspectives on Money.

Jacob and Marc discuss the different views on money between early Christians and Pagan cultures. Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Funny Money: Special Guest James McCann

James Donald Forbes McCann of the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan podcast sits down for a free wheeling chat with Marc and Jacob on Airlines, Tipping, Family, Advertising, and how awful Los Angeles is.

Good Money: Poverty

Marc and Jacob discuss why the Church calls all her children to Poverty, and what Poverty is and is not.

Good Money: Student Loan Forgiveness

Student Loans are a ubiquitous reality in America today. Joe Biden's recent announcement of a plan to forgive a portion on America's student debt has brought the issue to the fore. Join Marc and Jacob with special guest Dr. Andrew...

Good Money: Money Sayings

"Cash is King." "Time is Money." "Follow the Money." We've all heard plenty of sayings about money. Which are true, Which are false, and what do they actually mean? Marc and Jacob breakdown popular aphorisms about money, and tell us...

Good Money: Luxury

Luxury: is sounds like a scruple for the rich; actually it's the lifeblood of our consumer economy. Discern what you really need with Marc and Jacob.