New Polity

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April 18, 2024 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 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)
1 hr
April 04, 2024 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.

This episode is part 1 of a conversation on the Control of the Body.
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READINGS
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Introductory Episode
We don’t have any readings for our introduction, but it may be helpful to give Gender, by Ivan Illich, a read, to get hip to a medieval/pre-industrial vision of Gender.
Here’s a pdf: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
Capitalism
We are reading Silvia Federici’s “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” in her book “Caliban and the Witch,” which is available in our magazine, Issue 4.4: https://newpolity.com/single-issues/i...
But if you are POOR or CHEAP here’s a pdf. The essay in question starts on pg. 60: https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliba...
This is also a great time to read Karl Polyani’s “The Great Transformation,” which gives a (non gender specific) account of the transition to liberalism/capitalism in Europe.
Here’s a pdf: https://inctpped.ie.ufrj.br/spiderweb...
The Loss of the Virgin
We are reading Martin Luther condemning virginity, not because he was the only guy to do it, but because (a) he has a flair for exhortations and (b) we had to pick someone. The point is to understand how what had been an unquestioned symbol of perfection in Christendom is now being characterized as a merely individual calling.
The only free source for this exhortation in English appears to be this pretty intense website:
https://www.godrules.net/library/luth...
If you need an example of previous Christian enthusiasm for virginity, try
Gregory of Nyssa “On Virginity”: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/290...
The Beige World
The kids aren’t just bored, they are navigating a society of consumption through the power of efficacious vanity!
For a primer on consumerism, we read William Cavanaugh’s “Being Consumed.” https://www.eerdmans.com/978146743829...
Then we read Christopher Lasch’s “Culture of Narcissism.” Available wherever books are sold a momentarily at this link: https://thezeitgeistmovement.se/files...
Marc mentioned Eberstadt’s “Primal Screams.” Here’s his review: https://humanumreview.com/articles/ma...
Contraception, Abortion Episode (I-II)
Donum Vitae:
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/co...
(All hail the parchment background)
Humanae Vitae: https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-v...
(All mourn the loss of the parchment background)
The Problem of Individualism
We read the meanest book in the world so you didn’t have to. You will learn very little from Otto Weininger’s effort to destroy the woman and her sign, but here it is if you want to:
https://brittlebooks.library.illinois...
1 hr 33 min
March 28, 2024 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 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.
Get his book “Pagan America”.
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1 hr 45 min
March 21, 2024 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 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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2 hr 5 min
March 07, 2024 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, in particular, Luther) denied the purpose of the virgin.
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1 hr 46 min
February 27, 2024 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 as they discuss how capitalism rewrote our modern conception of gender.
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1 hr 33 min
February 08, 2024 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 a way of understanding one's sex beyond imposed identities or brute facts.
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1 hr 47 min
January 18, 2024 The Complete Gendered World of The Boys | Magazine 4.4 Review
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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 newpolity.com/single-issues
1 hr 23 min
December 30, 2023 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 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
1 hr 1 min
December 14, 2023 Announcing The College of St. Joseph the Worker | Starting Fall 2024
Learn more about the College at https://collegeofstjoseph.com
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.
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