New Polity

This past year billionaires increased their wealth by 36%. Despite this incredible gain, 35% of the Forbes 400 (the 400 wealthiest people in the world) gave only 1% of their wealth away. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam play the game "How to Blow A Billion Dollars" to help those with money understand how to usher in a Christian culture.

Magnificence, another money virtue, calls for a truly magnificent end. We're not talking creating another company that you own or big investments. We're talking about using wealth (yes, this one requires serious moolah) to do something that will forever change your city. Let's fix some churches and start some monasteries. Separate yourself from a large amount of money for a great work. You don't need another car.

(And if you're not rolling in the dough, listen to what the wealthy should be doing in case you ever hit a windfall.)

Don't build your wealth without building the virtue of liberality: a habit of giving so as to be an icon, rather than an idol, of God. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam discuss how they each fail at this.

Act now! You don’t need to have a lot of money to practice virtue. And you can’t afford to delay virtue. Featuring Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam.

Christianity offends the pieties of a money economy by giving two great commandments: Thou Shalt Not Save Wantonly and Thou Shalt Spend Like God. Featuring Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam.

Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes speak with author Brandon McGinley about his new book, It Is Right and Just, co-authored with Scott Hahn and recently published by Emmaus Road Publishing.

Marc Barnes and Andrew Willard Jones posit Black Friday as a "Sabbath of Liberalism" and apply the ideas in William Cavanaugh's recent New Polity magazine article.

Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam discuss their recent article, The Perversion of the Priesthood.

Andrew Jones says that "the point of politics is virtue. To “do politics” is to engage in making other people virtuous, or it is not politics at all, but an evil or a farce masquerading in its name."

In this podcast, Alex Plato and Jacob discuss virtue—what it is, who has it, and how to get it. In particular, they discuss the Thomistic versus Franciscan notions of pagan virtues to tie it back into Andrew's argument that political orders must be Christian to form men's souls in virtue.

Marc Barnes had a chance to sit down with Patrick Coffin to discuss the Church and the State, the upcoming election, Kanye vs. Trump, abortion, celebrities, and more.