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In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the latest New Polity magazine, Issue 6.1, and specifically the translation of Alberto Methol Ferré's striking essay "The Church, People Among the Peoples." Is the Church a visible people, or a people among the peoples? How does the Church overcome oppositions, universal-particular?New Polity Magazine Issue 6.1 is available for order: https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-1Rocco Buttiglione's new book Modernity's Alternative is now available from New Polity Press. https://newpolity.com/books-in-invent...Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! https://newpolity.com/magazineHelp us make more by donating. Thank you. https://newpolity.com/donate
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In this podcast, Reuben Slife interviews Rocco Buttiglione about his life and work. Buttiglione was promised by Luigi Guissani, the founder of Communion and Liberation, that a Christian life will never be boring; taking this wager, he discusses his studies with Augusto Del Noce, his early encounters in Poland with Karol WojtyĆa, his appointment to the European Union and time as Italian Minister of European Affairs, and the beginning of his friendship with Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina.
Rocco Buttiglione's new book "Modernity's Alternative" is now available from New Polity Press
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In honor of the new Pope Leo XIV, and in celebration of the 134th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Alex Denley and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII and the birth of modern Catholic Social Teaching. Our conference is two weeks away! Spots are still open: https://newpolity.com/events/2025You have money burning a hole in your pocket, and a mind yearning for knowledge. We have books. https://newpolity.com/pressSubscribe to the greatest magazine on Earth: https://newpolity.com/magazineJoin the conversation on our Discord: https://discord.gg/bNJ2uE7as6
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In honor of the passing of the Pope, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the life of Francis and the theology which he embodied: the theology of peoples. They also discuss Rocco Buttiglione's new book Modernity's Alternative and how Latin America formed the Pope's pastoral life and mission.
Modernity's Alternative is now available for order.
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At the 2024 New Polity conference, Matthew B. Crawford gave the keynote address in which he contrasted the view of man inherent in technocratic rationalism with that of a Christian view. Drawing from the work of Joseph Ratzinger and Michael Oakeshott, Crawford draws a distinction between an orientation toward receiving life as gift and cramped rationalism that views man as an object to be synthetically remade. The current push for technocratic control over every sphere of life collapses the vertical order of reality and aims to eliminate contingency, risk, and play. In contrast, one who affirms the inherent goodness of being is able to experience a real vitality of life in a meaningful world. Next conference is only a month and a half away. Make the trek out to God's own Steubenville! https://newpolity.com/events/2025
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Pre-order for Modernity's Alternative is now available!
In this podcast, Reuben Slife and Marc Barnes discuss a new book from New Polity press: Modernity's Alternative by Rocco Buttiglione.
In the 20th century, a movement of priests and laypeople sought to find a way past the clash of ideologies that wracked Latin America. They found a solution in Latin America itself, which was born out of the conflict between Europeans and natives when, with the appearance of the Virgin Mary at Guadalupe, the grace of God forged one, new people out of strangers and enemies.This movementâcalled âtheology of peoplesââfocuses on the reality known as âa people.â Every human person belongs to a people. And every people has a âworldâ: the way it makes sense out of life, work, love, and the uncertain future.
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What is the difference between a people and a nation? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Ernest Renan's influential lecture "What is a nation?". Renan argues that a nation is not formed by common descent, language, religion, or geography. Rather, a nation is a spiritual principle that requires sacrifice, and a forgetting of the past. Marc and Alex discuss Renan's definition of a nation and how it formed the development of nation states in the modern period. Registration is still open for New Polity Conference 2025! Ernest Renan's lecture can be found hereSubscribe to New Polity Magazine! Check out Marc's essay "National Forgetting"
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In this special episode of Political Saints, Marc Barnes and Nicolas McAfee discuss the heroic political life of St. Thomas More. Thomas More was the Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529 until 1531. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and was executed. Pope Pius XI canonized Thomas More as a martyr in 1935.
Dr. Nicolas McAfee is the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Center for Thomas More Studies. He is the author of Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way out of the Wreck (Lexington, forthcoming).You can find more on Thomas More Studies here: https://thomasmorestudies.org/New Polity Conference 2025 is only a few months away! Register at https://newpolity.com/eventsSubscribe to the greatest magazine on earth: https://newpolity.com/magazineCheck out our books at https://newpolity.com/press
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For the last five years, the Political Right has been debating over a program for regime change in America: should populism be used to construct a new elite class? Should a new administration retire all government employees? Can the bureaucratic state be maintained but filled with new conservative staff? In this podcast, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss subsidiarity as the solution to this debate, and how it provides a program for genuine regime change. Dr. Andrew Jones' new book The Church Against the State is available for purchase!Subscribe for all our best essays Join the conversation on our Discord
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What is the meaning of national identity? Does strong national identity necessarily create a hostile relation with other nations? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Joseph Ratzinger's short book "The Unity of Nations." Through a discussion of the political theology of Origen and St. Augustine, Ratzinger shows how the early Christians viewed their relation to the nations, and Christianity's nation-unifying gospel. Registration is open for the New Polity Conference 2025! Subscribe to New Polity magazine for all our best essays: Check out the books published by New Polity press: Join the conversation on our Discord
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Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's book "The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood." What is distinct about the brotherhood of Christians? Are there different ethical modes of acting to the brother and the non-brother? How does this impact our understanding of peoples and Christianity?The book is available from Ignatius press
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Are we headed to a grand and glorious technological future? In this talk, Andrew Willard Jones expects the opposite: "The Future is Always Worse Than You Think It Will Be." As he explains, there are two paths with the development on new technologies: one which leads to an extension of the humane world into greater areas, and another, the technocratic, which closes and mines the world from within. This talk was given at the 2024 New Polity Conference "Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers?" Registration is open now for New Polity's 2025 conference "Our Kind of People." The early bird price ends on January 31st. Register today at https://newpolity.com/events
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Registration for New Polity 2025 conference is now open! Don't miss out on our early bird price: https://newpolity.com/events/2025In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley review the latest New Polity Magazine, Issue 5.3, which includes articles on sex discrimination in the workplace, the demise of the hippocratic oath, the state of the pro-life movement, and more. New Polity Issue 5.3 is available for order at https://newpolity.com/single-issues?category=BacklistSubscribe for all our best essays: https://newpolity.com/magazineJoin the conversation on our Discord: https://discord.gg/bNJ2uE7as6
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Register here for New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People
The fifth annual New Polity conference takes âthe peopleâ as its theme and object of wonder. Motivated by the apparent victory of populism in the United Statesâ 2024 election, and inspired by the Holy Roman Pontiffâs love for Latin Americaâs âtheology of the people,â this meeting of theologians, philosophers (and, letâs face it, preachers) is devoted to thinking deeply about "the people."
What makes us a people? Is it blood? Is it language? Is it love? Violent assertion? A shared history? Is the United States "a people"? How do "a people" get formed out of a mass, a crowd, a mob, a family, a village? And where does God enter into all of this? Does the Church, the universal People of God, negate or embrace the particular peoples that it liberates and saves? Can nationalism be redeemed? What about folk music? All of this is up for discussion and debate, the subject of our good humor and great conversation at New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People.
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Pre-order The Church Against the State at https://newpolity.com/pressThe Church sees the world as Godâs good and harmonious Creation, a primordial peace. In his acclaimed book "Before Church and State," Andrew Willard Jones revealed that society in the High Middle Ages was a striving toward liberation by grace, which led to subsidiarity. In The Church Against the State, he argues that this uniquely Christian political form is still with us, present in our love, our courage, and in all that is noble within us, brought to new life through the Church. In this podcast, Marc Barnes interviews Andrew Willard Jones on his new book "The Church Against the State."
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All the energy and vitality today is on the political right; the old conservative reactionary stance has been replaced with active, rival voices aimed at constructing a new regime. One such voice is Bronze Age Pervert and his followers. Through their series "The Politics of Paganism," Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones have explored the Nietzschean proposal, arguing that it is doomed to failure. The pagan cosmos is a closed world which cannot provide the freedom and vitality that Nietzsche extols. In this final episode, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss the failure of the Nietzschean alternative and the open world of a Christian political order. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! Read our essaysJoin the conversation on our Discord
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Why do we not feel free? As modern liberalism continues to isolate and divide, our common experience is a lack of freedom, of being constrained and enslaved. But, how can true freedom be restored? In this episode of the Politics of Paganism, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss the New Law and how grace restores true freedom. Read our essays at https://newpolity.com/essaysSubscribe to the greatest magazine on earth: https://newpolity.com/magazineJoin the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/bNJ2uE7as6
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St. Thomas Aquinas presents salvation history in three stages: The Age of Nature, the Age of Law, and the Age of Grace. The pagans are stuck within the age of nature; fallen humanity inevitably declines into idolatry and slavery. But, God has a plan for saving man. From the time of Moses until Christ, God's chosen people are in the Age of Law which points forward to the coming of Christ. In this podcast, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss salvation history and the culmination of the Age of Law in the Cross.
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The pagan cosmos is a closed world: the city is never truly self-sufficient, requiring natural slaves and war; regimes rise and fall cyclically; the regime's justice is never true justice. In the Treatise on Law (ST I-II, Q.90-108), St. Thomas Aquinas presents a different vision: the open world of grace. God orders the world through the eternal law; rational creatures participate in providence through human law; divine law is necessary to bring man to his final end. In this episode of the Politics of Paganism, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss how St. Thomas' vision of law answers the closed world of the pagans.Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! Join the conversation on our DiscordEssays by New Polity
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Plato and Aristotle argue that aristocracy is the ideal regime, but it never lasts for long. What's most powerful wins, and the masses are always the most powerful in number. Eventually, every pagan regime declines into the production of idols and temple slavery---whether Egypt, Greece, or Rome. In this episode of the Politics of Paganism, Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Jones discuss this decline and what brings it about. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! Join the conversation on our DiscordEssays by New Polity
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