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What makes socialism the greatest Catholic heresy? Check out this final episode of Throwback Thursday to hear Andrew Willard Jones and Jacob Imam discuss the deadly brilliance of socialism: what makes it so attractive, and how even its deepest insights into human nature are twisted into man's destruction.

Is the nation a modern invention? Today's Throwback Thursday features Jacob Imam and Andrew Willard Jones on the ideology of nationalism: how it breaks down at its most fundamental level and why socialism and liberalism only arise by means of it.  Ask Question or Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Incompetent professionals, useless certifications, and cars that make you go slow. Today Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss Ivan Illich's harsh critique of the professional technological world, which can be found in our latest New Polity magazine.  Buy Issue 3.4 here: https://newpolity.com/single-issues/vol-2-4-2226g-6wtb4-jpcmd  Check out Marc's discussion with Nathan Bird on Local...

In honor of our Emeritus Holy Father's passing, Andrew Willard Jones and Jacob Imam dive into Ratzinger's deeply theological vision of reality and what it means for our political order. Tune in to find out how Pope Benedict XVI is even "more integral than the integralists!"   Ask Question or Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://...

On this next episode of our throwback series, we look back on "Liberalism and Libertarianism is not Catholic" with Jacob Imam and Andrew Willard Jones.

On this year's Christmas Special Marc and Jacob discuss the beauty of Children and what the Child Jesus can teach us about the world.   Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

This episode of our throwback series, we look back on “The Political Christ" in which Jacob Imam and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the intrinsically political nature of Christ's mission.   Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Our New(ish) series!  We will be reposting some of our original episodes for YouTube with graphics and images. A brief introduction to the series and then the first ever episode of the Podcast with Jacob and Andrew.  This episode walks through Creation and the Garden and Andrew tells us what it can teach us about Politics!   Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx4...

The Live Q&A is right around the corner! Jacob and Marc summarize the Good Money principles to help you ask great questions, and simplify the ideas. Ask Question or Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Skyler Kressin and Rodger Tindall join Jacob and Marc to discuss the village, the city, and what a Christian commonwealth looks like.   Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Special Guest Scott Hahn joins Jacob to discuss the Israelite Jubilee year laid out in Leviticus and what we can learn from it.  Including what claims God is making with the rules he lays down and how that ought to affect our views of Money today.   https://www.steubenvilleworkshop.com/shop Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit http...

Is "Capitalism" really the natural state of society? Watch this episode as Jacob and Marc breakdown the historical emergence of modern capitalism as the enemy of sustenance living and peasantry. The Invention of Capitalism: https://bit.ly/3Ujvgde Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Jacob and Marc discuss the different views on money between early Christians and Pagan cultures. Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate https://www.steubenvilleworkshop.com/shop Citations: Jerome, Letter to Demetriades PL [22: 1118] Bon., AP, VII.36, Augustine, Retractions 12.26 2 Clement 20:4 from The Apostoli...

James Donald Forbes McCann of the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan podcast sits down for a free wheeling chat with Marc and Jacob on Airlines, Tipping, Family, Advertising, and how awful Los Angeles is. Check out James’ work: https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesDonaldForbesMcCann Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity...

Marc and Jacob discuss why the Church calls all her children to Poverty, and what Poverty is and is not.  Join the Discussion in our Discord:  https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Student Loans are a ubiquitous reality in America today.  Joe Biden's recent announcement of a plan to forgive a portion on America's student debt has brought the issue to the fore.  Join Marc and Jacob with special guest Dr. Andrew Willard Jones to discuss student debt, the forgiveness plan, the university system as a whole, and more! Join the discussion on our Discord: https://discord....

"Cash is King." "Time is Money." "Follow the Money." We've all heard plenty of sayings about money.  Which are true, Which are false, and what do they actually mean?  Marc and Jacob breakdown popular aphorisms about money, and tell us what they really mean!   Join the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donat...

Luxury: is sounds like a scruple for the rich; actually it's the lifeblood of our consumer economy.  Discern what you really need with Marc and Jacob. Join the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Charging interest on a loan is still a sin. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying.  Marc and Jacob DEMOLISH some of the popular excuses for committing an act of usury.  Join the Discussion in our Discord:  https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF  Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate Episode Citations 3:20 John T Noonan "Authority, Usury, and Contraception"  1...

Former Wall Street investment banker William Bednarz joins Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam to discuss the sin of speculation—buying something low in order to sell it high, without working to add any value to it. Learn why the popes condemned this sin...and why you should too!

Investments are usually seen as ways to make more money, but the Church teaches that they are ways of dignifying the labor of others. Listen to hear Marc and Jacob avoid ranting about the stock market for a whole hour.

Marc Barnes, and probably Jacob Imam, think there are way more simoniacs than we imagine. Rule number 33 for money: don't sell holy things!

Welcome back to another season of Good Money, the only financial podcast that promises you less money, and more friends. Marc Barnes and Jacob Iman discuss the meaning behind tithing, that mysterious obligation to give ten percent of our income to the Church, and why we should do it.

Marc Barnes discusses with Shawn and Beth Dougherty the illegality of raw milk as a spiritual sign of the times.

Marc and the Dougherty's discuss how and why to start a compost pile: it restores fertility to the soil and makes you a shepherd of death. (Our apologies for the funky audio!)