New Polity

Former Wall Street investment banker William Bednarz joins Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam to discuss the sin of speculation—buying something low in order to sell it high, without working to add any value to it. Learn why the popes condemned this sin...and why you should too!

Investments are usually seen as ways to make more money, but the Church teaches that they are ways of dignifying the labor of others. Listen to hear Marc and Jacob avoid ranting about the stock market for a whole hour.

Marc Barnes, and probably Jacob Imam, think there are way more simoniacs than we imagine. Rule number 33 for money: don't sell holy things!

Welcome back to another season of Good Money, the only financial podcast that promises you less money, and more friends. Marc Barnes and Jacob Iman discuss the meaning behind tithing, that mysterious obligation to give ten percent of our income to the Church, and why we should do it.

Marc Barnes discusses with Shawn and Beth Dougherty the illegality of raw milk as a spiritual sign of the times.

Marc and the Dougherty's discuss how and why to start a compost pile: it restores fertility to the soil and makes you a shepherd of death.

(Our apologies for the funky audio!)

In 2021, Gladden Pappin came to the New Polity conference to let us know that our obsession with technology is silly—not only because we have ceased inventing truly novel innovations, but also because those who are producing it are actually enslaving us. So buckle up and enjoy the talk!

All politics is local. In this episode, Nathan Bird and Marc Barnes discuss subsidiarity in action and why you should care about city code, from Chattanooga to Steubenville.   

If anyone feels so inspired as to endeavor their own local politics podcast, let us know in a comment or at [email protected]

Roe v. Wade constrained the abortion debate to an argument over rights. Now that Roe is dead, pro-lifers have a unique opportunity to argue against abortion in a specifically non-liberal mode: as a wickedness that supplants the relational reality of the human person, falsely individualizing us all. Marc Barnes and Andrew Jones discuss.

We are excited to announce the College of St. Joseph the Worker. Mike Sullivan, Jacob Imam, Marc Barnes, and Andrew Willard Jones talk us through it.  Learn more at https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/