New Polity

Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes answer your questions, and describe the way the Church is, and is not, tyrannical. 05:06 Are the tyrants conscious they are tyrants? 16:41 Would you say all entertainment is propoganda? 24:16 Is there a time you can point to and say “There, that's when tyranny started to rear it's ugly head.” 31:29 How is the Church not itself a tyranny?

Political fanaticism, the natural result of a failed ideology, is a tool that keeps real power and property in the hands of tyrants. Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes explain how. Help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Large-scale governance isn't bad, but in the hands of tyrants, it becomes a tool for alienating and atomizing the particular person from his family, friends, and his own creative reasoning, stifling rebellion before it begins. Featuring Marc Barnes and Andrew Willard Jones.

In this episode, Andrew and Marc take a deep dive into the nature of propaganda, as the primary way a tyrant creates a man-made world.

Thomas Aquinas says "cruelty" is a vice proper to tyrants. In this episode, Andrew and Marc argue that this infliction of pain is necessary, if the tyrant is going to make up for the motivating power he loses when he chooses to rule for private gain rather than the common good.

In this episode, Andrew and Marc describe bureaucracy as a necessary tool in tyranny's toolkit, and try to remind everyone that they are, in fact, a special little snowflake.

Following New Polity's Good Money podcast, this brand new series explores Good Politics. How? By contrasting it with Really Bad Politics—tyranny. In this episode, Andrew Jones and Marc Barnes describe and dissect our tyrannical social order, its technological mechanisms, its structural nature, and the Catholic alternative—a politics of peace.

Nick Plato interviews Andrew Willard Jones about his conversion (from nihilism) to Catholicism, about how he entered Catholic politics, about his family, and gets his hot takes on America. Get to know Dr. Jones in this stopgap podcast.

Andrew Willard Jones and Alex Plato redefine politics and discuss power and how it should be used in the ideal Christian society.

Many people are discussing intentional Christian communities, but rarely consider the role of money within them. Most uses of money function to degrade or undermine Christian community. In this penultimate episode, Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam discuss how money should be used—to build the Christian communities we so desire. Plus, join us for our live season finale Q&A Tuesday, July 27 at 2pm EST...

Real Estate seems like a safe, local way to invest that meets Thomas' three requirements. Right, Jacob? We've gotten this question a number of times, so Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes are sharing their responses with the world.

St. Thomas says there are six tell-tale signs that your city is obsessed with money. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam diagnose how deep the problem goes.

What if customs—and not corporations—decided the price? Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam tackle Just Price, Price Mechanisms, Tipping, and Farmers Markets, among other things. Read, hear, and support more great content at newpolity.com

There is a systemic, not an incidental, problem with Bitcoin. Join Marc and Jacob to learn how that problem is playing out.

Insurance. Good, bad, necessary? Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam share their thoughts.

Jacob Imam and guest Alex Renn take a look at the practicalities, the insecurities, the sacrifices, and the excitement of actually closing a 401k.

Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam have been hinting at this for a while, but they finally come out and tell us why we should be skeptical of our 401k.

Temperance can be applied to money fairly simply: if you spend your money on bad things, you won't have money to spend on good things. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam fill this out a bit and challenge you to reconsider where you're spending your money.

If money is a placeholder (see Two Rules for Money) and you need to know what it holds a place for—does this mean that emergency accounts are wrong? Is "emergency" a sufficient place to be held? How much or how little is prudent/imprudent? Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam, as usual, have an opinion.

We've all been there. You've got so much money you don't know who to give it to. Your local almoner (?) can help. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam celebrate and advocate for a return of almoners.

Money makes you more predictable, less creative, and more controllable. Surprise, surprise, Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam still don't like money. But they give you some ideas on how to use it to become more free, creative, and virtuous. Help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Magic obscures cause and effect. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam argue that money functions a bit like magic, at least obscuring the true cause and habituating us to the idea that we can be our own gods.

Many of us think of debts as finite monetary obligations, but that's just a modern re-framing. In this episode Jacob Imam argues that true debts can never be repaid and that gifts are supposed to create true debt—debt that builds a community of love rather than a system of repayment. Marc Barnes is there, too.

It may seem like Good Money is advocating eliminating all wealth. Is being rich sinful? Bad? Jacob Imam and Andrew Jones provide some nuance to the question of being rich.

F.I.R.E. = Financial Independence, Retire Early. Work is a sacramental insofar as it was a gift God gave us in the garden, which helps us participate in Him. So ceasing from work is not a good thing, but retiring from certain jobs is. Tune in with Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam to hear the pros and cons of F.I.R.E.