The Open Door

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink and Christopher Zehnder continue their discussion on the American Solidarity Party plank of Civil Rights and Religious Freedom. (November 8, 2019)

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos y Reyes, and Christopher Zehnder talk about Civil Rights and Freedom of Religion....from the new Platform. (November 1, 2019)

"The Open Door" returns to its exploration of the life and work of St. John Henry Newman. We'll look to recent reflections on this new saint by Cardinal Muller and the theologian Tracey Rowland. Our special guest is author, educator, and convert Christopher Zehnder. Questions on our agenda include the following. 1. How does Newman think that we can arrive at certainty in our assent to the historic...

In this episode of The Open Door, Catholic evangelists Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and John Breen engage Christopher Zehnder in discussion concerning Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman. (October 18, 2019)

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and John Breen engage Brian Talbot on the educational plank of the American Solidarity Party platform. (October 11, 2019)

In this episode of The Open Door, we look at the foreign policy plank of the American Solidarity Party's new platform. Lots of issues, including the need for decent citizens if there is to be a decent foreign policy and the grave dangers of a nuclear arsenal. Special guest is Jeffrey Stuart who discusses, among other things, his role in shaping the plank and his tour of duty in Afghanistan. (Octob...

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink and Mario Ramos-Reyes engaged Eric Anton, one of the architects of the American Solidarity Party's economics plank, in a conversation about the meaning of economic justice. (September 27, 2019)

The Open Door welcomes special guest Theodore Rebard, a professor of philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, in Houston. He’ll lead us in a discussion on “Undergraduate Teaching: Promise and Peril.” Our questions include the following. Can you share some of your teaching successes? What made them possible? What are the main obstacles that you face in teaching? Can you identify some of their...

The Open Door welcomes our favorite political scientist, Dr. Skylar Covich. He’ll give us a firsthand account of the American Solidarity Party’s just completed online convention. We’re looking forward to his analysis of Brain T. Carroll’s developing residential campaign. Skylar will also help us work through the high points of the Solidarity Party’s hotly debated new platform. If you have any ques...

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and Joe Schriner discuss both the use and misuse of rhetoric, especially in politics. Our special guest, once more, will be Joe Shriner. He’s campaigning to be the American Solidarity Party’s 2020 candidate for POTUS. Among the questions we explore are the following: (1) How can you--or any public figure--effectively speak to very di...

On The Open Door, this Friday, August 30, we’ll discuss distributism. Our special guest is the respected and prolific author Thomas Storck, a member of the American Solidarity Party. Among the questions we’ll consider are the following. 1. Just what is distributism? 2. Does Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum propose distributism ? 3. How does distributism differ from capitalism? 4. How does it differ f...

The Open Door podcast explores Blessed John Henry Newman's polemical piece on education and the Tamworth Reading Room. Our special guest is Christopher Zehnder, educator and author. He's also an active member of the American Solidarity Party! Our questions will include the following. 1. Who was Lord Brougham? Sir Robert Peel? 2. What was the Tamworth Reading Room? 3. Sir Robert Peel tells us that...

The Open Door explores humanism and Christian humanism. Our special guest, and we are delighted that he is returning, is Dr. Curtis Hancock. He is Coordinator of the Concentration in the History of Philosophy at Holy Apostles College & Seminary, Cromwell, Connecticut and taught for 32 years at Rockhurst Jesuit University, Kansas City, Missouri. For over a decade he taught for “Great Books Discussi...

In this episode of The Open Door, show hosts Jim Hanink and Mario Reyes-Ramos along with John Breen interview Christopher Zehnder concerning Catholic liberal education. (August 9, 2010)

The Open Door looks to South America. Co-host Mario Ramos-Reyes, returning from his travels to S.A., will help us answer questions that include the following. Feel free, friends, to submit others! How did you find Paraguay, your homeland? What is the political reality there? What is the overall situation of democratic regimes in South America? Some say that there are new signs of a return to autho...

This week The Open Door welcomes our friend Prof. Peter Redpath. Joining him will be Prof. Curtis Hancock. He is Coordinator of the Concentration in the History of Philosophy at Holy Apostles College & Seminary, Cromwell, Connecticut and taught for 32 years at Rockhurst Jesuit University, Kansas City, Missouri. For over a decade he taught for “Great Books Discussions,” an on-line homeschooling pro...

In this episode of The Open Door, Catholic evangelist Jim Hanink interviews Catholic author Rick Akins concerning his upcoming book The Rebirth of Nicodemus, to be published in the summer of 2019 by En Route Books and Media. (July 19, 2019)

This week on The Open Door we explore how a commitment to the common good calls for ecological conversion and a restructuring of our political economy. Our special guests are Frank Morris and Joe Schriner. Both are active members of the American Solidarity Party, as well as “frank and candid” commentators on the established disorder. We tackle the following questions—and more! 1. Why is the common...

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink and Mario Ramos-Reyes engaged Brendan Sweetman, philosophy professor at Rockhurst University, on the topic of pluralism.

Jim Hanink and Mario Ramos-Reyes interview Heather Erb and Steve Bertucci concerning the Great Books. What is a Great Book and what is Great Books education? How does this system of education relate to other approaches? How does the Great Books approach serve the true purposes of education? How does philosophical anthropology ground the Great Books education? What are some critiques of this method...

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes and Samantha Delfin discuss the recent Vatican document entitled "'Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a path of dialogue on the question of gender theory in education." (June 21, 2019)

In this episode of The Open Door, hosts Jim Hanink and Mario Ramos-Reyes invite Peter Redpath and Heather Erb to discuss the following questions: 1. Which Thomists have contributed most to your way of “thinking Thomistically”? 2. Just what is philosophical dialectic? 3. Which of the following is most satisfactory and why? Philosophy is: the attempt to justify basic beliefs and the analysis of the...

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and Christy Yao engage Skylar Covich. Their points of discussion include the following: This week we will be talking with Skylar Covich about the following: 1. Media strategy 2. Ballot access strategy 3. Local chapter development 4. Our place in the presidential campaign generally 5. California legislature

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink and friends take on the issues of the day. (May 18, 2018)

In this episode of The Open Door, Jim Hanink, Mario Ramos-Reyes, and Christy Yao engage Charles Camosy, associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University.