The Civitas Podcast

James Wood and Peter Leithart talk with Tim Carney about ways that today's America is unfriendly to families. Timothy Carney is a father of six children, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist at the Washington Examiner . Tim and his wife, Katie, have raised their family in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. He grew up with three older brothers in Greenwic...

Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with Dr. Ephraim Radner about his latest book, Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty . _ Ephraim Radner (Ph. D., Yale University) is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, an evangelical seminary of the Anglican tradition at the University of Toronto, where he teaches both ministerial and doctoral students. He is the author and editor...

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss Augustine, politics, and the earthly city with Dr. Veronica Ogle. _ Dr. Ogle is the author of  Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine's City of God , and is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought and the Augustinian Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Villanova University. 

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss human rights and liberalism with Samuel Moyn. _ Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. He came to Yale from Harvard University, where he was Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professo...

James Wood and Peter Leithart are joined by special guest, Dr. Andrew Jones, to discuss his works "The Two Cities," and "Before Church and State." Dr. Jones is a professor of theology and the Director of Catholic Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also the founding editor of New Polity . Select Bibliography: The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics (...

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss key texts in their thinking through political theology.  0:00 - 10:00 James Wood on Leslie Newbigin 10:00 - 20:35 Peter Leithart on RJ Rushdoony   20:35 - 31:30 James Wood on William Cavanaugh 31:30 - 36:00 Peter Leithart on Stanley Hauerwas "The church doesn't have a social ethic, it is a social ethic." - SH 36:00 - 44:00 James Wood on Oliver O...

James Wood and Peter Leithart discuss some highlights from the past year of the Civitas Group and the podcast. Peter Leithart then leads a discussion on three of James' recent essays, which can be found below with timestamps. (12:35) 1. Ordering our Social Loves , at Ad Fontes/Commonwealth (39:22) 2. How Abraham Kuyper Lost the Nation and Sidelined the Church , at Ad Fontes (57:48) 3. Can the...

James Wood and Peter Leithart are joined by special guest, Ross Douthat, to discuss the new right and post-liberalism. _ Ross Douthat is an opinion columnist at The New York Times, and is also a host on the weekly Opinion podcast, “ Matter of Opinion .” Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger on its website. A prolific writer, Mr. Douthat has written for The Atlantic and N...

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by special guest, Professor Nancy Pearcey, to discuss her recent work on the war on masculinity. _ Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes . Her earlier books include Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality , The Soul of Science , Saving Leonardo , Finding Truth , and t...

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by special guest Eric Gregory to discuss Augustinian civic liberalism and political theology. _ Eric Gregory is director of graduate studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University, where he has served on the faculty since 2001. He is a world-renowned scholar in Christian Ethics and Policital theology. He is the author of Politics and the Order of...

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by special guest Oliver O'Donovan to discuss political theology. _ Oliver O’Donovan, born in 1945 in London, held teaching posts at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Wycliffe College Toronto before becoming Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church at the University of Oxford in 1982. He was Professor of Christian Ethics &amp...

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by James Patterson to discuss Neo-Integralism, Fulton Sheen, Americanism, and more. _ Dr. Patterson is an associate professor and the chairman of the politics department at Ave Maria University; a fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy; a fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology; a contributing editor of Law & Liberty ; a member of a...

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by Jerry Bowyer to discuss corporations, wokeism, discipling businesses, and economics.  _ Jerry Bowyer is the chief economist of Vident Financial, editor of Townhall Finance, editor of the business channel of The Christian Post, host of Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer podcast, president of Bowyer Research, and author of The Maker Versus the Takers: What...

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss liberalism, two kingdom theology, Lockean reductionism, what to do in a divided church, and more.  _ The Civitas Podcast, co-hosted by Peter Leithart and James Wood, exists to explore Christian political theology, with a specific focus on contemporary debates about liberalism and post-liberalism, and to elaborate a distinctively "ecclesiocentric" The...

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by Brad Littlejohn to discuss two kingdoms, Christian Nationalism, and Christian commonwealths. ____ About Brad Littlejohn: Brad Littlejohn, Ph. D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program , where his work focuses on helping public leaders understand the intellectual and historical foundations of our current breakdown of public trust, socia...

Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with D.C. Schindler about his father's work, liberalism, and post-liberal discourse. _______ About Dr. Schindler Dr. Schindler’s work is concerned above all with shedding light on contemporary cultural challenges and philosophical questions by drawing on the resources of the classical Christian tradition.  His principal thematic focus is metaphysics and phil...

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss magisterial reformation political theology, reconstructionism, and Christian Nationalism with Dr. Glenn Moots. _______ Glenn A. Moots is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Northwood University and also serves as a Research Fellow at the McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship there. He is the author of Politics R...

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss ontological individualism and ecclesiocentrism with James Rogers, who chairs the Theopolis Civitas group. James R. Rogers is associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University. He holds a Ph. D. and a J.D., and teaches and publishes scholarship at the intersection of law, politics, and mathematical models. He has published in the American Jou...

The Civitas Podcast, co-hosted by Peter Leithart and James Wood, exists to explore Christian political theology, with a specific focus on contemporary debates about liberalism and post-liberalism, and to elaborate a distinctively "ecclesiocentric" Theopolitan version of post-liberalism.