New Polity

Announcing the 4th Annual New Polity Conference, Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers? In this podcast, Marc Barnes, Jacob Imam, and Andrew Jones discuss the role of technology on our lives, the pursuit of a technology for power, and how Christians should approach technology. Check out our lineup of speakers and register here ⁠https://newpolity.com/events/2024⁠

Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman answer your most pressing question: what are we to do? Drawing from their experiences in Chattanooga and Steubenville, they describe how small bets they made on city improvement have produced big results. Institutional barriers (bad city councils, HOA's, and local laws) can be an impediment to change, but there's still hope. Virtuous friends, with a passion for...

Are we drowning in too much city plans? Or do we just have bad plans? Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman argue that good city planning can solve many of our issues. Although developers and "experts" have caused weird and unsustainable developments, they discuss how local cities can retake planning their city. On the docket: imperial zoning laws, detached property owners, transient residencies,...

Should we flee to the Land or revitalize the City? Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how the battle between land and city is a false dichotomy. Each is dependent on the other and both are essential to renewal. They also discuss how the modern city has divorced these ways of life: making the land a commodity to extract resources and the modern city a scattered suburban sprawl. Also, the financial...

In this episode of Good Cities, it's time to get mad at cars...again. Cars were promised to be freedom on wheels, but most people experience driving as forced upon them; monotonous, traffic-ridden, and expensive. Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how cars have made us slow, anxious, and separated from each other. Our cities once were bustling downtowns, and now they're a series of parkin...

We have a magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. Visit newpolity.com/magazine It's time to get mad about cars. In this episode of Good Cities, Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman discuss how cars have reshaped the city. How did cars become necessary for life? How did the American government implement a car-centered society? How has the rise of suburbia impacted our cities? Welcome...

We have a magazine! Subscribe today and get 30% off all back issues. Visit https://www.newpolity.com/magazine Welcome to our new series Good Cities! In this episode, engineers Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman describe the nature of the city. What is a city? Are cities places of sin? What is the purpose of the city? Is there a rivalry between farm and city? How have we built our cities in America? How c...

In this episode of political saints, Andrew Willard Jones, author of "Before Church and State", discusses the life of King St. Louis IX. Dr. Jones shows how Louis fulfilled his role as king within his role as laity. Instead of the modern way of viewing Church and State as in tension with one another, King Louis saw himself as a lay member of the Church sanctifying the temporal order.

Subscribe to the magazine today and get 30% off all back issues. Visit https://www.newpolity.com/magazine The new magazine is out now! Issue 4.2 includes essays and reviews by Andrew Willard Jones, Thomas Storck, Michael Higgins, and more. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss the highlights from New Polity Magazine 4.2, including the rise of bourgeois society by Christopher Dawson,...

Eric Brende is the author of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, which describes his experience of living with the Amish. Marc and Eric discuss the role of technology, the aesthetic of homesteading versus urbanism, and how to approach mechanized life. Help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Sam Pearson and Marc Barnes discuss the industrial transformation of the working class and its effects. Is this change sustainable in the long term? How can we renew a culture of good work? Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

In this episode of political saints, Fr. Daniel Utrecht of the Toronto Oratory and Jacob Imam discuss the life of Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen. Blessed Clemens was bishop of Münster, Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. He published numerous condemnations of the Nazi regime and helped draft Pope Pius XI's anti-Nazi encyclical Mit brenneder Sorge. In 1946, he was made a cardinal...

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Marc Barnes and the Dougherty's make the case for the garden as the missing vocation of man and a way to pit God's superabundance against modernity's presumption of scarcity. Join the Discussion on Our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

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Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell are back to discuss the new format of New Polity's magazine - and the integralist debate that shows up in Dostoyevsky. There is nothing new under the sun. Join the Discussion on Our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

"Be who you should be and you will set the world on fire." Today, Jacob Imam and Maria Brandell explore the life of Catherine of Siena - a passionate Italian woman known for her mystical wisdom and saintly political action. Find out what she has to say - concerning the soul, the corruption of Church leaders, and even the crusades. Join the Discussion in our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx...

The Nazis decapitated Bl. Franz Jägerstätter for refusing to take the oath to Hitler. In hindsight, everyone can recognize his bravery and integrity. At the time, no one could. Jacob Imam and Reuben Slife are convinced most of us would have caved. See how Bl. Franz didn't. Join the Discussion on Our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/do...

Blessed Alcuin of York—the dearest advisor to Emperor Charlamagne, the learned founder of Cathedral schools, and the august inventor of the question mark—teaches us that the greatest politicians are the greatest saints. Join Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes as they discuss the Carolingian plan for making every man a Christian. Join the Discussion on Our Discord: https://discord.gg/rx47eCgagF Or help us...

How does an oligarchical society avoid falling down the tyrannical toilet? In this episode, Dr. Andrew Willard Jones and Dr. Alex Plato examine Plato's regime forms and the modern tendency to take the "tyrannical regime" as its formal baseline (including many Catholics). Join in today for a discussion on why we cannot keep making these mistakes and an alternative way forward. Help us make more: vi...

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.