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Laying the intellectual foundation necessary for building Christian societies free from the violent presuppositions of liberalism.
Episodes
- America in the Mystery of Christ and the Church
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms America in the Mystery of Christ and the Church What does it mean to be holy in America? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss…
- The Power of Female Beauty | The Book of Judith Pt. 2
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Power of Female Beauty | The Book of Judith Pt. 2 In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Star Plato continue their discussion of the book of Jud…
- Is there Gender in the Soul? | The Metaphysics of Gender w/ D. C. Schindler
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Is there Gender in the Soul? | The Metaphysics of Gender w/ D. C. Schindler Do men and women differ only in regards to the body? Or, can we sp…
- Catholic Social Teaching and the New Evangelization
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Catholic Social Teaching and the New Evangelization w/ Cy Kellett Pope St. John Paul II claimed that "the 'new evangelization', which the mode…
- Slaying Holofernes: The Book of Judith and Women's Heroism
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Slaying Holofernes: The Book of Judith and Women's Heroism "The Lord struck him down by the hand of a female!" Is the story of Judith a reject…
- Esther and the Paradoxical Power of Sexual Difference
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Esther and the Paradoxical Power of Sexual Difference Esther defeats the idolatrous god-king through the strange power of weakness. Join Marc…
- The Metaphysical Problem of Sexual Difference w/ D. C. Schindler
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Metaphysical Problem of Sexual Difference w/ D. C. Schindler What is the metaphysical difference between man and woman? Philosophy has lon…
- The Story of Esther and Women's Vocation
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Story of Esther and Women's Vocation What do the matriarchs of the Old Testament teach us regarding the roles of men and women? In this po…
- Is the Iran War a Just War? | A Discussion of Catholic Social Teaching
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Is the Iran War a Just War? | A Discussion of Catholic Social Teaching The Iran War is close to entering its third week, and hostilities conti…
- Man and Woman: Sexual Difference and the Political Order
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Man and Woman: Sexual Difference and the Political Order In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Michael Boland discuss the upcoming New Polity magaz…
- Debate: Should We Delete Catholic AI? | Matthew Sanders and Marc Barnes
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Debate: Should We Delete Catholic AI? | Matthew Sanders and Marc Barnes In this podcast, Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard (creator of…
- Pope Leo XIV on AI Chatbots: Preserving Human Voices and Faces
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Pope Leo XIV on AI Chatbots: Preserving Human Voices and Faces What is the Catholic response to AI? Pope Leo XIV, in his recent message for th…
- AI Writing and the Collapse of a Literate Culture
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms AI Writing and the Collapse of a Literate Culture The book has long been the place of completed thought, able to incorporate previous work and…
- We Survived Another Year | 2025 Wrap-up
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms We Survived Another Year | 2025 Wrap-up Happy New Year! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss New Polity's 2025 year, the books…
- Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave | New Polity 2026
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave | New Polity 2026 We are excited to announce New Polity's 2026 conference: Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave. Learn more and…
- America's Structures of Sin
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms America's Structures of Sin We are excited to announce our next New Polity Magazine: Issue 6.4 on The Critique of America, featuring essays by…
- Debate: Is it Wrong to Talk with an AI Chatbot?
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Debate: Is it Wrong to Talk with an AI Chatbot? Marc Barnes believes that AI chatbots are evil, and that having a faux conversation with AI ch…
- Christianity Against the Technocratic Paradigm
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Christianity Against the Technocratic Paradigm In this podcast, Alex Denley and Marc Barnes discuss the upcoming New Polity magazine on AI, th…
- The Medium is the Message w/ Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Medium is the Message w/ Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi Technology has given an untrained humanity unprecedented power over itself. Peter…
- Building Strong Towns after the American Decline w/ Charles Marohn
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Building Strong Towns after the American Decline w/ Charles Marohn America was a place of untold wealth in the post-war period. But today, man…
- What Christians Should Do in an AI World
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms What Christians Should Do in an AI World We are happy to announce the next issue of New Polity Magazine, dedicated specifically to Artificial…
- Globalization and the Rise of Populist Politics
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Globalization and the Rise of Populist Politics In this podcast, Alex Denley and Professor Rocco Buttiglione discuss the problem of globalizat…
- The Politics of the Real with D. C. Schindler
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Politics of the Real with D. C. Schindler Liberalism is on the defensive. Political discussion is shifting from “what’s wrong with liberal…
- Should Christians Use ChatGPT?
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Should Christians Use ChatGPT? The development and use of AI chatbots has grown massively. With hundreds of millions of users, OpenAI, XAI, Cl…
- The Catholic Answer to Nationalism
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Catholic Answer to Nationalism Professor Rocco Buttiglione and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss the rise of nationalism and populism both…
- The Crisis of Authority with D. C. Schindler
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Crisis of Authority with D. C. Schindler D. C. Schindler argues that the loss of authority is the greatest of all human crises. When Nietz…
- It's 2025. It's Time for Catholic Social Teaching
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms It's 2025. It's Time for Catholic Social Teaching We live in a disillusioned political age, one where old liberal arguments no longer have hol…
- The Praxis of Resistance | Magazine 6.1 Review
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Praxis of Resistance | Magazine 6.1 Review In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the latest New Polity magazine, Issue 6.1…
- Rocco Buttiglione: A Life Among Popes, Saints, and Politicians
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Rocco Buttiglione: A Life Among Popes, Saints, and Politicians In this podcast, Reuben Slife interviews Rocco Buttiglione about his life and w…
- Pope Leo: Rerum Novarum and Catholic Social Teaching on the 134th anniversary
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Pope Leo: Rerum Novarum and Catholic Social Teaching on the 134th anniversary In honor of the new Pope Leo XIV, and in celebration of the 134t…
- What We Got from Pope Francis
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms What We Got from Pope Francis In honor of the passing of the Pope, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the life of Francis and the theology w…
- Technocracy and the Vital Force in Man | Matthew Crawford
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Technocracy and the Vital Force in Man | Matthew Crawford At the 2024 New Polity conference, Matthew B. Crawford gave the keynote address in w…
- Modernity's Alternative and Theology of the Peoples
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Modernity's Alternative and Theology of the Peoples In the 20th century, a movement of priests and laypeople sought to find a way past the cla…
- What is a Nation?
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms What is a Nation? What is the difference between a people and a nation? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Ernest Renan's in…
- The Heroic Life of St. Thomas More
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Heroic Life of St. Thomas More In this special episode of Political Saints, Marc Barnes and Nicolas McAfee discuss the heroic political li…
- Subsidiarity: How to Dismantle the Bureaucratic State
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Subsidiarity: How to Dismantle the Bureaucratic State For the last five years, the Political Right has been debating over a program for regime…
- The Unity of the Nations | Joseph Ratzinger
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Unity of the Nations | Joseph Ratzinger What is the meaning of national identity? Does strong national identity necessarily create a hosti…
- The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025 ! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discus…
- The Future is Always Worse Than You Think | Andrew Willard Jones
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Future is Always Worse Than You Think | Andrew Willard Jones Are we headed to a grand and glorious technological future? In this talk, And…
- The Case for Sex Discrimination | Mag Review 5.3
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Case for Sex Discrimination | Mag Review 5.3 Registration for New Polity 2025 conference is now open! Don't miss out on our early bird pri…
- Our Kind of People | New Polity 2025
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Our Kind of People | New Polity 2025 Register here for New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People The fifth annual New Polity conference takes “the p…
- The Church Against the State | Andrew Willard Jones
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Church Against the State | Andrew Willard Jones Pre-order The Church Against the State . The Church sees the world as God’s good and harmo…
- The New Political Right: Pagan or Christian?
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The New Political Right: Pagan or Christian? All the energy and vitality today is on the political right; the old conservative reactionary sta…
- Restoring Freedom: The New Law of Grace
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Restoring Freedom: The New Law of Grace Why do we not feel free? As modern liberalism continues to isolate and divide, our common experience i…
- Aquinas on Salvation History: From Moses to Christ
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Aquinas on Salvation History: From Moses to Christ St. Thomas Aquinas presents salvation history in three stages: The Age of Nature, the Age o…
- Aquinas on Law: The Open World of Grace
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Aquinas on Law: The Open World of Grace The pagan cosmos is a closed world: the city is never truly self-sufficient, requiring natural slaves…
- The End of Politics: Temple Slave States
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The End of Politics: Temple Slave States Plato and Aristotle argue that aristocracy is the ideal regime, but it never lasts for long. What's m…
- The Dark Reality of Medical Aid in Dying
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The Dark Reality of Medical Aid in Dying Medically-assisted suicide bills are being introduced in states all over the country. Proponents say…
- Aristotle's Politics: Natural Slaves and the One True Statesman
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms Aristotle's Politics: Natural Slaves and The One True Statesman Aristotle's "Politics" is full of deep insight: politics as the architectonic…
- The 401k Story: A Deep Dive with Its Inventor, Ted Benna
Listen on Apple Podcasts  |  Listen on Spotify  |  Listen on other platforms The 401k Story: A Deep Dive with Its Inventor, Ted Benna Ted Benna has been called the "Father of the 401k." But now, he says that he created…