Join Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell's book club on Judith Butler's queer theory classic, "Gender Trouble." Part I features a look into the text's backdrop, postmodernism—and its unexpected confirmation of Catholic doctrine.

Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss how their dissatisfaction with both sides of the gender debate led them to take a closer look at the Catholic theological tradition.

In this final episode of the Politics of Tyranny, Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes attempt to tie together the many techniques of tyrants into one, comprehensive package: war. All tyranny is the expansion of the state of war into places of peace for the sake of private gain.

Population control isn't just in the forced sterilizations and genocides of tyrannical regimes. It is wherever people subordinate the human good of procreation to the punishments and rewards of the regime. We're all eunuchs now, say Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes.

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones, and Jacob Imam riff on Christmas—Santa Claus, God-Kings, Caesar's birth, how Herod died, why Jesus was born among animals, and more.

Tyranny makes fear the basis of a social order, and technology promises to assuage that fear. Learn about the technology of tyranny from Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes.

It's easy to recognize a tyrant. It's hard to recognize a good rebellion. Still, rebellion is a moral obligation for Christians under tyrannies. Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes discuss why, and how you can begin the hard work of rebellion, starting with martyrdom and ending in war.

The Kingship of Christ is paralleled in the Queenship of Mary. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam spend this Feast of the Immaculate Conception reflecting on Mary, our Queen.

For freedom we've been set free, right? So how can freedom be a tool of a tyrant? Spend the next hour with Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes to find out.

The myth of equality is a tactic for hiding the deployment of tyrannical power. Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes unpack this assertion in today's episode.