Political Philosophy

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A podcast devoted to the history of political thought in the spirit of sharing, not perfection. Explanation and discussion of classic and contemporary political ideas. YouTube: YouTube.com/politicalphilosophy

Episode Date
Leo Strauss on Maimonides and Esoteric Writing
Apr 12, 2026
Historicism’s Deadly Effect on Thinking (Persecution and the Art of Writing, 4)
Feb 28, 2026
Persecution and Horse Logic (Persecution and the Art of Writing, 3)
Feb 01, 2026
Antimodern Progress: The Ideas of Jacques Maritain (Upcoming Class)
Jan 24, 2026
Why Exoteric Writing? (Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing, 2)
Jan 17, 2026
Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss (New Series)
Jan 10, 2026
Fair Labor Standards in the United States: A Conversation With Constitutional Law Expert John Fliter
Dec 20, 2025
Dislocation as a Symptom of Modernity: The Case of Peter Maurin (Recent Talk)
Dec 13, 2025
What AI Means (And Doesn’t Mean) for Our World, with Stephen Paff (Excerpt)
Oct 25, 2025
Pastor Caleb Campbell: Disarming Leviathan
Oct 03, 2025
The Usefulness of Common Sense in the Age of Digital Deception (Being There 6)
Sep 27, 2025
The Vulnerabilities of Democracy in the Age of Image
Sep 07, 2025
Romantic Democracy: The Blind Following the Blind. (Kosinski’s Being There, 4)
Aug 23, 2025
An Empty Signifier Makes an Ideal Lover (Being There, Part 3)
Jul 31, 2025
Victim or Boss? Depends on Your Perspective (Being There, Part 2)
Jul 26, 2025
From Gardener to Politician: The Impact of Media in ‘Being There’ (1)
Jul 22, 2025
Thomas Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory: Brief Explanation (Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Public Segment #4)
Jun 27, 2025
The Quality of Friendships: Does it Matter for Politics? Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Public Segment #3
Jun 20, 2025
Introduction to Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, Public Segment #2: The Mean Between Extremes
Jun 13, 2025
Introduction to Ivan Illich: A New Maurin Academy Class Starting June 17
Jun 11, 2025
The Relationship Between Freedom and Justice (Federalist 51, Part 3)
Jun 11, 2025
American Liberty: How Is It Secured? (Federalist 51 Part 2)
May 06, 2025
Are Checks and Balances Necessary in the US Constitution? (Federalist 51, Part 1)
Apr 19, 2025
Madison Would Be Surprised — and Disappointed (Federalist 10, Part 4)
Mar 29, 2025
Did Madison Foresee the Demise of Democracy? (Federalist 10, Part 3)
Mar 29, 2025
James Madison Warns Against Violent Majority Factions & Demagogues (Federalist 10, Part 2)
Mar 14, 2025
New Dialectic of Enlightenment Reading Group Starting March 19, 2025
Mar 09, 2025
Federalist 10 Deciphered: Madison on the Dangers of Factions and the Separation of Powers (Part 1)
Mar 09, 2025
What Did Plato Say About Democracy and Demagogues?
Mar 01, 2025
HUMBLE IS What We Need – Sit Down!
Feb 23, 2025
Coming Up: The Maurin Academy Speaker Series and Beyond
Feb 12, 2025
Direct Action vs. Liberal Charity (Gap in God’s Country Segment from Session5 )
Jan 26, 2025
Gazing Into the Abyss of Deep Pluralism (w/ Benjamin Studebaker) Dustbowl Diatribes SO 3, Ep. 27
Jan 25, 2025
Narcissistic Leaders in Church and State–Segments from Session 4 of The Gap in God’s Country series
Jan 18, 2025
The Gap in God’s Country: Segments From Session 3
Jan 04, 2025
Explore Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self in Monthly Sessions!
Dec 29, 2024
The Gap in God’s Country: Segments From Session 2
Dec 22, 2024
The Gap in God’s Country – Segments from Session 1
Dec 10, 2024
Starting Monday Nov. 18: Gap in God’s Country Sessions–Sign up on Eventbrite or Patreon
Nov 16, 2024
Hillbilly Elegy Bookclub Finale: How to Read Books Without Getting Angry
Nov 09, 2024
Prof. Martin Chung on “Catholic Social Teaching on Economic Life and the International Community.”
Nov 03, 2024
Published and for sale: The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars
Oct 26, 2024
Incarnation and the Environment, with Author Jordan Daniel Wood
Oct 20, 2024
The Greatest of All Plagues: Economic Inequality From Plato to Marx: Interview w/ David Lay Williams
Oct 05, 2024
The Spiritual Crises of Modernity: From Nominalism to Nihilism: Upcoming Maurin Academy Class
Sep 28, 2024
Why the Fights, Infidelities, Serial Marriages, & Kids Raised by Grandparents? (Hillbilly Elegy 3)
Sep 15, 2024
JPII Catholic Worker Farm Update: Goat Mowers & Accommodations Coming Together! August 2024
Aug 19, 2024
Q & A Session: Hillbilly Elegy Bookclub, Introduction
Aug 17, 2024
Hillbilly Elegy Book Club! Introduction (Analysis of JD Vance’s 2016 book)
Aug 10, 2024
Why Does the US Have a Two-Party System?What Could Change That?
Aug 04, 2024
The Fragmented Self in Modern Liberalism (V.S. Naipaul, One Out of Many, 3) & Future Plans
Jul 29, 2024
Unfree in Freedom/Unequal in Equality (One Out of Many, VS Naipaul 2, The Gap in God’s Country)
Jul 15, 2024
Dustbowl Danse Macabre: Dustbowl Diatribes Season 3, Ep. 20
Jul 14, 2024
Dislocation: Alone in the World (One Out of Many/In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul) Gap in God’s Country
Jul 10, 2024
Future Plans & Thoughts on Plato (ft. Carl Jung, Charles Taylor, Plato…)
Jul 02, 2024
The First Mover Argument in Plato’s Laws, Book 10
Jun 10, 2024
The Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic (Seminar 2024 Readings 6)
Jun 02, 2024
Plato’s Gorgias: Heaven, Hell, and the In-Between Place (Seminar 2024 Readings 5)
May 27, 2024
Diotima’s “Ladder of Love” in Plato’s Symposium (Seminar 2024 Readings 4)
May 12, 2024
The Allegory of The Cave in Plato’s Republic (Seminar 2024 Readings 3)
May 12, 2024
Plato and the Ring of Gyges Story (Seminar 2024 Readings 2)
May 06, 2024
Was Plato a Polytheist? (Seminar 2024 Readings 1)
Apr 27, 2024
Coming Up: Summer Seminar on Plato and the Next Few Podcasts
Apr 21, 2024
Interview with David Holmgren, Co-Founder of the Permaculture Movement
Apr 14, 2024
Register Now! Chris Cutrone on the 1848 Revolutions, Live for The Maurin Academy April 22
Apr 14, 2024
All Things Aristotle, Including Economics (Interview with Dr Cliff Bates)
Mar 28, 2024
Short Take: What is Moral Inversion (Unmasking Administrative Evil, Adams & Balfour)
Mar 19, 2024
Localism, Distributism and Libertarianism Aren’t Enough (Personalist Manifesto 6)
Mar 17, 2024
Capitalism and Culture: Emmanuel Mounier’s The Personalist Manifesto (5)
Mar 02, 2024
Personalism and the Family: Is it Good to Pay for Housework? (Personalist Manifesto 4)
Feb 18, 2024
Personalism: Heroes, Saints, and Women (Personalist Manifesto 3)
Feb 05, 2024
JPII Farm update: Why Local Ag Draws Opposition (January ’24)
Jan 29, 2024
Personalism’s Critique of Socialism and Capitalism (Emmanuel Mounier, Personalist Manifesto, 2)
Jan 14, 2024
Introduction to Personalism (Emmanuel Mounier’s The Personalist Manifesto)
Dec 31, 2023
Interview with my Dad: Old Foodways and Lifeways
Dec 24, 2023
Interview with My Dad: Old Foodways and Lifeways
Dec 24, 2023
C.S. Lewis on Old Books: Mind Expanding
Dec 17, 2023
Taylor Swift as Cultural Symptom: Coming Up Wednesday! (Audio)
Dec 10, 2023
Is Political Friendship Possible in America? (Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics, on Friendship, 6)
Dec 06, 2023
Aristotle: Friendship of Unequals: Is it Possible? (5)
Oct 27, 2023
Friendship: What Does it Really Mean? (Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics 4)
Oct 16, 2023
Virtue and Friendship: Achieving the Mean Between Extremes (Aristotle’s Ethics 3)
Sep 30, 2023
How and Why to Become a (Male) Teacher: An Interview with Caleb on Liberal Arts Education K-12.
Sep 23, 2023
Intro to Aristotle on Friendship (Nichomachean Ethics 1)
Sep 20, 2023
Douglas Lain on Neofeudal Capitalism, Disinformation & Free Speech (Dustbowl Diatribes SO 3, ep 1)
Sep 02, 2023
Aristotle on Friendship: A New Series on the Nichomachean Ethics
Sep 02, 2023
Take-Aways From Eric Voegelin’s Science, Politics & Gnosticism (6)
Aug 26, 2023
What’s Happened to the Liberating Arts? An Interview with Jeffrey Bilbro of the Front Porch Republic
Aug 19, 2023
Holmgren’s Energy Descent & Climate Change Scenarios: Are We in ‘Brown Tech?’
Jul 28, 2023
Eric Voegelin: Ideologies as “Ersatz Religions”
Jul 21, 2023
Higher Education at a Crossroads (From Monthly Political Philosophy Talk)
Jul 14, 2023
The “Death of God”: Its Meaning and Significance (Voegelin 4) ft. Marx & Nietzsche
Jun 23, 2023
Marx, Nietzsche and Eric Voegelin (Science, Politics & Gnosticism 3)
Jun 10, 2023
Eric Voegelin on the Search for Truth (2)
May 27, 2023
Dustbowl Diatribes Season 3 Preview (ft. Spencer’s Class on Guardini’s The End of the Modern World)
May 11, 2023
Introduction to Eric Voegelin: Gnosticism and Ideological Mass Movements
May 06, 2023
What Lies Beyond Christian Nationalism? Interview w/ Brian Zahnd on Seemingly Simple Matters (Dustbowl Diatribes 2.12 cross post)
Apr 29, 2023
Ideological Strong-Arming: Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” (A reading from my draft manuscript)
Apr 23, 2023
Special Dustbowl Diatribes:  Lenten Murmurings on Capability and Culpability
Apr 07, 2023
Does Democracy Demand Noble Lies? (Gorgias 6)
Apr 01, 2023
Who’s the Real Man? Socrates vs. Callicles II (Gorgias 5) ft. Hobbes
Mar 18, 2023
Callicles, The Ancient Nietzsche, Rips Democracy (Gorgias 5)
Mar 05, 2023
Do Democracies Produce Tyrants? (Gorgias 4)
Feb 25, 2023
Should Speech and Debate Teachers Be Blamed for Bad Politicians? (Gorgias 3)
Feb 11, 2023
Lies or “Rhetoric?” Socrates on Deceptive Democratic Speech (Gorgias 2)
Jan 28, 2023
Why Read the Classics? Intro to Plato’s Gorgias: on Democratic Politics (ft. cat)
Jan 21, 2023
What’s Wrong With Democracy? (Politics of the Real 9)
Jan 14, 2023
The Private is Public (Politics of the Real 8)
Jan 07, 2023
Should We Be More Tolerant–Or Will Our Brains Fall Out? (Politics of the Real 7)
Dec 14, 2022
The Meaning of Ownership (Politics of the Real 6)
Dec 03, 2022
Redefining Rights: Positive, Teleological Right (Politics of the Real, 5)
Dec 02, 2022
How Can Community Be Built? (Politics of the Real 4)
Nov 05, 2022
Was the American Founding a Christian Event? (Politics of the Real, 3)
Oct 30, 2022
Liberalism vs. Christianity (DC Schindler’s The Politics of the Real–2)
Oct 21, 2022
The Politics of the Real by DC Schindler: Intro to Series
Oct 21, 2022
Retool for What? The Dark Side of Automation (Maurin Academy)
Sep 30, 2022
A Hacker Manifesto: Wark on Envelope and Accelerationist Politics
Sep 17, 2022
Meta-Morphed: Is There Any Reason for Techno-Utopian Optimism?
Sep 09, 2022
Should Seeds Be Mere Commodities?
Sep 04, 2022
Hackers v. Vectoralists or Percy v. Goliath (Maurin Academy Short Series Pt 1: Jakob Hanshu)
Sep 03, 2022
Love and Betrayal Brings Down Ancient Athens (Thucydides 7)
Aug 27, 2022
What’s the Maurin Academy
Aug 25, 2022
“The Strong Do What They Can and the Weak Suffer What They Must:” The Melian Dialogue (Thucydides 6)
Aug 14, 2022
The Root Cause of Civil War (Thucydidean Realism 5)
Jul 30, 2022
Who Was Dorothy Day? (Christian Anarchism Clip 5)
Jul 23, 2022
The Amish and Bruderhof Are Partly Right (Christian Anarchism Clip 4)
Jul 09, 2022
Why Overturning Roe is Not a Victory
Jul 02, 2022
Just War Theory: The Argument for a Middle Path (Christian Anarchism Clip 3)
Jun 18, 2022
Why Religion and Politics Don’t Go Together (Christian Anarchism Clip 2)
Jun 12, 2022
Why Is It So Hard to Change Anything? Christian Anarchism 1, Clip (ft. the Radical Liberal Chomsky)
May 29, 2022
Baby Formula Shortage and Technocratic Evil
May 22, 2022
Pandemic Strikes Politics: On the Plague of Athens (Thucydidean Realism 4)
May 08, 2022
Pericles’ Funeral Oration and State Worship: Thucydidean Realism (3)
May 01, 2022
Who Started the War? Thucydidean Realism 2
Apr 25, 2022
Thucydidean Realism: The Emergence of Rivals (1)
Apr 11, 2022
PMC Obscenity
Apr 03, 2022
The Unreality of War and the Nuclear Threat
Mar 27, 2022
T.J. Jackson Lears on “Evasive Banality”
Mar 20, 2022
The Realist View of Ukraine/Russia: John Mearsheimer on the “Thucydides View”
Mar 15, 2022
Christopher Lasch’s Introduction to “The Therapeutic” (Audio)
Mar 12, 2022
Stop the Culture Wars: A Plea to the US Left (ft. Chris Cutrone, Matt Christman, Catherine Liu)
Mar 08, 2022
Stop the Culture Wars: A Plea to the US Left (ft. Chris Cutrone, Matt Christman & Catherine Liu)
Mar 06, 2022
Permaculture: Left and Right (Environmental Political Thought) ft. Holmgren and Spirko
Mar 01, 2022
Boats ‘N Huevos Rancheros: Radical Liberalism Gone to Seed 4 (Contributor: Spencer, audio)
Feb 26, 2022
Rad-Lib’s Magical Thinking: Sterile Seeds–Longer Cut ft. South Park (Contributor: Spencer) 3
Feb 19, 2022
Hatching Plans for a New Podcast, Seminar and Beyond
Feb 16, 2022
Softer, Better, Slower, Juster: Radical Liberalism Gone to Seed 2 (Contributor: Spencer)
Feb 13, 2022
PMC Decadence: Going ‘Native,’ Radical Liberalism Gone to Seed 1 (Contributor: Spencer)
Feb 05, 2022
The State of University Address
Jan 30, 2022
Political and Religious Virtue: Really?
Jan 23, 2022
Virtue: Ancient, Christian, Bourgeois, Hyper-Bourgeois
Jan 16, 2022
Why Not School Prayer? Hauerwas’s Christian Critique of Christian America
Jan 10, 2022
Introduction to Stanley Hauerwas
Jan 02, 2022
Consider: Receiving is Giving. Real Generosity is Rejecting Transactionalism
Dec 18, 2021
Edmund Burke vs. US Conservatives. Reading From My Latest Book Project: The Gap in God’s Country
Dec 05, 2021
Ten Things to Consider (Thanksgiving Greetings ft. Zuckerberg’s Metaverse)
Nov 26, 2021
Edmund Burke on “The Rights of Man” (Reflections 4)
Nov 21, 2021
Edmund Burke’s Noble Lie (Reflections 3)
Nov 16, 2021
Edmund Burke: Is Revolution Ever OK? (Reflections 2)
Nov 08, 2021
Introduction to Edmund Burke and Reflections on the Revolution in France
Oct 31, 2021
12 Step Program for Christians Addicted to Empire (Out of Babylon 6 audio)
Oct 17, 2021
Christian Nationalism as Stockholm syndrome (Brueggemann 5)
Oct 03, 2021
Divine Imagination & Futuring (Brueggemann: Out of Babylon 4)
Sep 26, 2021
Against the Ideology of Certainty Besetting US Christians (Out of Babylon 3)
Sep 19, 2021
The Price of Hypocrisy (Out of Babylon: Brueggemann 2) ft. Nietzsche
Sep 11, 2021
Empire and God: Do They Mix? (Out of Babylon, Brueggemann 1)
Sep 05, 2021
I Want to Be Liam Neeson (But I Should Resist). (Keynes 5)
Aug 29, 2021
The Option of Radical Forgiveness: Not Taken
Aug 23, 2021
Interdependence is a Bitch: The WWI Lesson of Precarity Not Learned (Keynes 3)
Aug 15, 2021
Still as Stupid as 1914: WWI and the Culture Wars
Aug 07, 2021
Permaculture and National Security (Jeremy Cowan Pt. 2)
Aug 02, 2021
The Handmaid’s Tale and WWI: Is the Carthaginian Solution Inevitable? (Keynes/Versailles Treaty)
Jul 31, 2021
Religion and Politics–Whoops, We Talked About Both (Jeremy Cowan Interview Part 3)
Jul 31, 2021
Could Agrarian Distributism Ever Work? (Interview with Jeremy Cowan Pt. 1)
Jul 18, 2021
Culture War Futility, Why Self Expression Beats Action (Distributism 5-Audio)
Jul 10, 2021
Dorothy Day vs Capitalist Realism (Distributism 4)
Jul 04, 2021
Indian Farmer Protests and Distributism (3)
Jun 27, 2021
Do We Live in a Servile State? ft. Hilaire Belloc’s Distributism (Seminar 2)
Jun 20, 2021
Can You Be Both Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Communist? (Seminar 1-Rerum Novarum)
Jun 12, 2021
Basic Income vs. Gaslighting the Precariat (Podcast)
Jun 06, 2021
Multitasking Ourselves to Death (Precariat 6-Audio)
May 31, 2021
Migrants and Underemployment in Context: What’s Really Going On? (Precariat 5-Audio)
May 22, 2021
WWMD? New Talk
May 17, 2021
Why is My University Degree Not Enough? (4-Audio)
May 09, 2021
Why Can’t I Find a Good Job? (Guy Standing, The Precariat 3-Audio)
May 03, 2021
Intro to The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing (Audio)
Apr 17, 2021
G.K. Chesterton on Work, Play and Empire (6-Audio)
Apr 11, 2021
Distribute the Machinery (GK Chesterton 6-Audio)
Apr 04, 2021
GK Chesterton: Agrarian Communalist (5-Audio)
Mar 29, 2021
On Rousseau, Authenticity, Sincerity and Self-Deception: An Interview with John Warner (Audio)
Mar 20, 2021
“If they served their God as they have served their Pork King…” (4)
Mar 14, 2021
GK Chesterton’s Distributist Vision (3-Audo)
Mar 08, 2021
GK Chesterton on Capitalist Despair (Audio)
Feb 28, 2021
Introduction to G.K. Chesterton and Distributism
Feb 21, 2021
Human v. Pig: Disc. w/ Friends (Porkopolis 3-Audio)
Feb 13, 2021
Somos Puercos: Human-Animal Melding in the Meat Production Business (Porkopolis 2-Audio)
Feb 06, 2021
Porkopolis: The Human and Economic Tragedy of Manufactured Meat (1-Audio)
Jan 30, 2021
Originality is Not the Point: Charles Taylor’s Views on Environment/External Reality (Malaise 5-Audio)
Jan 16, 2021
What led to this? A Longer View (ft. Jacques Ellul, Sheldon Wolin, Wendy Brown) Audio
Jan 09, 2021
Why do we swallow camels but choke on gnats? w/ Spencer Hess on Enchantments of Mammon (2-Audio)
Jan 03, 2021
Where did Christians go wrong? A conversation w/ Spencer Hess on The Enchantments of Mammon (1-Audio)
Jan 02, 2021
What Does the Incarnation Mean? Christmas 2020 (Audio)
Dec 24, 2020
Charles Taylor on Divorce and Breakup: Why Do We Do This? (Malaise 4-Audio)
Dec 19, 2020
What’s Wrong With Relativism? Charles Taylor’s Authenticity (Malaise 3-Audio)
Dec 13, 2020
The Ethic of Authenticity: Good, Bad or Both? Charles Taylor (Malaise 2-Audio)
Dec 05, 2020
Introduction to Charles Taylor’s The Malaise of Modernity (Audio)
Nov 30, 2020
The Francis Option, Not the Benedict Option (McCarraher 10-Audio)
Nov 21, 2020
Mises, Hayek, Rand, Friedman: Prophets of Another Faith (McCarraher 9-Audio)
Nov 15, 2020
What’s Wrong–Election Crisis 2020 (Audio)
Nov 07, 2020
Magic Mickey Helps Out Mammon (McCarraher 8-Audio)
Oct 31, 2020
What if Matter Is Sacred? Conversation with Jakob Hanschu on Arts and Crafts Movement (McCarraher 7-Audio)
Oct 25, 2020
Corporate Love Affair: Populists & Socialists Too? (McCarraher 6-Audio)
Oct 18, 2020
Chris Cutrone on the Hidden Potential of Liberalism and Possible Futures (Part 2-audio)
Oct 10, 2020
Chris Cutrone on the Death (and Life) of the Left and the Meaning of Trump (Part I)
Oct 09, 2020
Does the Corporate God Love Us? (McCarraher 5-Audio)
Sep 26, 2020
The Rise of the Illiberal Right: What We’re Missing
Sep 20, 2020
Mammon Hits America! Puritans, Evangelicals & Mormons (McCarraher 4-Audio)
Sep 13, 2020
Ruskin, Blake and the Romantic Rejection of Automation (Enchantments of Mammon 3-Audio)
Sep 06, 2020
Medieval Radicals? Fighting the Enchantments of Mammon (2-Audio)
Aug 29, 2020
McCarraher’s Enchantments of Mammon: Weber Was Wrong (1- Audio)
Aug 22, 2020
Christopher Lasch on the Betrayal of Progressives (7-Audio)
Aug 15, 2020
Christopher Lasch on “Sexual Combat” (6-Audio)
Aug 09, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon–What’s Up Next (Preview-Audio)
Aug 07, 2020
Need a Nanny? Lasch on Narcissistic Education and Parenting (5-Audio)
Aug 01, 2020
Christopher Lasch on Sports (4-Audio)
Jul 26, 2020
Costco Karens: The Laschian Response (4-Audio)
Jul 20, 2020
Bureaucratic Dominance: Christopher Lasch on Controlled Labor (3-Audio)
Jul 12, 2020
Narcissistic Death Cult: Christopher Lasch’s America (2-Audio)
Jul 05, 2020
Marx, Identity, and Recuperation: Interview with Jakob Hanschu (Part 2-Audio)
Jun 28, 2020
Conversation with Jakob Hanschu: On Responsibility in the Anthropocene (Part 1-Audio)
Jun 22, 2020
Noberto Bobbio & “Associational Socialism.” What is it and could it work? (Mouffe, Audio 6)
Jun 15, 2020
Intersectionality and Identity Politics–Do They Pay? (Mouffe 5-Audio)
Jun 08, 2020
Mouffe on Rawls’ Liberal Theory (Audio-4)
May 31, 2020
Superseding Liberalism: Mouffe v. Communitarians (3-Audio)
May 24, 2020
Chantal Mouffe, Carl Schmitt, and the Critique of Enlightenment Liberalism (2-Audio)
May 16, 2020
No Escape from Politics: Intro to Chantal Mouffe (1 Audio)
May 11, 2020
The Problem of the “Common Man”: Against Dogmatic Certainty (3-Audio)
May 02, 2020
Can a Conservative and a Socialist Agree? Against Dogmatic Certainty (2–Audio)
Apr 26, 2020
Burke and Bernstein Against Dogmatic Certainty (Audio 1)
Apr 20, 2020
Origins of “Mutual Aid” and Why It’s Getting Popular– Desert v Green State (3-Audio)
Apr 12, 2020
Escaping the End of History: Green State v. Desert — Audio (2)
Apr 07, 2020
What’s a Time Bank (Audio)
Mar 31, 2020
State & Anarchy–Green State v. Desert Introduction (Audio 1)
Mar 28, 2020
Eat This–Dealing With a Stress Test (Audio)
Mar 14, 2020
Farmers vs. Vectoralists: Takeaways from McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead (Audio)
Mar 08, 2020
Where I’m Headed Next: The Green State
Mar 03, 2020
The Sins of the Scientists–Did They Fail Us? (Wark 6 Audio)
Mar 01, 2020
Who’s the Boss and Who’s the Worker ——- ? (Wark 5 Audio)
Feb 23, 2020
Vulgar vs. Genteel Marxists? (Wark 4 audio)
Feb 15, 2020
Dead and Living Labor: Introduction to Core Marxist Ideas (Audio)
Feb 09, 2020
Hackers, Marx and the Tape Guy (Wark 2, Audio)
Feb 03, 2020
The Vectoralist Class–Introduction to McKenzie Wark (Audio)
Jan 26, 2020
Bridging Neoliberal Loneliness and Hippie Communes–A Role for Church? (Audio, Brueggemann 5)
Jan 19, 2020
In the Casino: Choosing Dreams or Death (Brueggemann 4–Audio)
Jan 11, 2020
Should Cyrus Be Worshiped? (Audio)
Jan 05, 2020
Numbed and Satiated: Brueggemann on Egypt and America (Audio)
Jan 01, 2020
Rethinking the Christian Contribution: Walter Brueggemann’s Imagination (Audio)
Dec 23, 2019
What Would Carl Jung Think of Capitalism and Automation? A reading from my latest article. (Audio)
Dec 16, 2019
St. Benedicts Needed? MacIntyre and the New Dark Ages (After Virtue, Conclusions, Audio)
Dec 08, 2019
Fake News is Not the Problem (Audio)
Nov 28, 2019
Can We Escape Our Past? Self & Responsibility (After Virtue 9 Audio)
Nov 26, 2019
From Hero to Consumer (After Virtue 8, audio)
Nov 18, 2019
Revolt Against “Customer Service”: MacIntyre on the Managerial Monster God (After Virtue 7 Audio)
Nov 11, 2019
Our Bureaucratic Rulers: Creatures of Enlightenment’s Failure (Audio)
Nov 04, 2019
Groping for Moral Certitude (After Virtue 5) Audio
Oct 28, 2019
Emptiness and Its Consequences: MacIntyre on “Emotivism” (Audio)
Oct 20, 2019
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Third Way (After Virtue 3–Audio)
Oct 14, 2019
Aristotelian Virtue Ethics: After Virtue 2 (Audio)
Oct 06, 2019
Introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and After Virtue (Audio)
Sep 30, 2019
To Greta Thunberg and All Climate Strikers (Audio)
Sep 22, 2019
Gifts Instead of Taxes? Peter Sloterdijk: Honor the Wealthy (Audio)
Sep 15, 2019
Climate Strike v. Occupy: Do Protests Matter? (Audio–Dreaming Dangerously 7)
Sep 07, 2019
Thracymachus Blushing (Short Essay)
Sep 07, 2019
Rebellion and Beyond: Dreaming Dangerously 6 (audio)
Sep 01, 2019
Unsafe and Alive in Zizek’s Post-Ideology (Dreaming Dangerously 5, audio)
Aug 24, 2019
Not About the Market: Oakeshott on Friendship, Fishing and Tools (audio)
Aug 18, 2019
Don’t be Nostalgic: Oakeshott on Conservative Disposition
Aug 11, 2019
Alternative Conservatism: Michael Oakeshott’s Model
Aug 04, 2019
Not Jordan Peterson’s Carl Jung (an audio reading from my new book)
Jul 31, 2019
Deeper Community—How? (Radical Christianity-Audio)
Jul 30, 2019
Consumerism or Death: Memento Mori (Radical Christianity audio)
Jul 30, 2019
Radical Christianity 2: Contract vs. Covenant (Audio)
Jul 29, 2019
Carl Jung, Collective Unconscious and Archetypes (Ideological Possession Audio Reading 2)
Jul 29, 2019
An Other Kingdom (Audio)
Jul 18, 2019