Episodes
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What did Pope Pius XII think about America?
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss Pope Pius XII’s 1939 letter to America on the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the hierarchy of bishops. They discuss both Pope Pius’s praise for America and his warnings regarding the degradation of the family and cultural decline of...
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Why Employee Ownership Works w/ Flocknote CEO Matthew Warner
Does employee ownership really work? Matthew Warner, founder and CEO of Flocknote, says it certainly does. In this podcast, Marc Barnes interviews Matthew on his experience transitioning Flocknote to an employee owned company, and the benefits it brings to his company. They also discuss Catholic...
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AI: The Hype vs The Real
Marc Barnes and Alex Denley are happy to announce the next New Polity Magazine, Issue 7.3, on AI: The Hype vs The Real. In this podcast, they discuss the loss of textual communities, AI generated homilies, the technocratic paradigm, and other topics from the new magazine. Subscribe by August 15th...
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From Catholic Blogs to Social Media Algorithms w/ Joe Heschmeyer
Marc Barnes and Joe Heschmeyer are from the old world of the Catholic blogosphere. With catchy titles like "Bad Catholic" and "Shameless Popery," the Catholic blogs were the place for long comment threads and an active community. Social media has made that community mostly obsolete, and social...
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Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas w/ Author Will Hoyt
In The Seven Ranges, Will Hoyt sought answers to how and why small, self-sufficient landholders in eastern Ohio consented to the destruction of once-thriving townships and even topography itself via strip mining in the 1960s. In his new sequel, Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas, Hoyt describes the...
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The Nation-Saving Prayer of Judith | The Book of Judith Part 3
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Star Plato discuss the final chapters of the Book of Judith. Specifically, they look at the prayer at the end of the Book, where Judith praises God for victory. This is final part of the series on Judith. You can view the full series here. Subscribe to New Polity...
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What Was the Americanist Heresy? (Did it Really Exist?)
America is a special place. And, it even has its own heresy. In this podcast, Reuben Slife and Marc Barnes discuss Leo XIII's condemnation of "Americanism," and the controversy that it caused. Some US bishops replied to the Pope that no one actually adhered to Americanism, and that it was...
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The Political Philosophy of Magnifica Humanitas
Magnifica Humanitas has been called the "AI Encyclical," but there's far more to the document: a thorough analysis of Catholic Social Doctrine, an extensive treatment of modern warfare, and how power works in the world today. In this podcast, Alex Denley and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the...
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The Anti-Chatbot Alliance: New Polity Goes to Washington
The anti-chatbot alliance is growing. With support from the Future of Life Institute, New Polity is hosting a landmark event on AI this October in Steubenville Ohio, bringing together leading Catholic organizations and thinkers to discuss, debate, and chart a path for our world with AI. Event...
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America in the Mystery of Christ and the Church
What does it mean to be holy in America? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the newest release from New Polity Press: America in the Mystery of Christ and the Church by David L. Schindler, available now. David L. Schindler, for forty years editor of the American edition of the...
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The Power of Female Beauty | The Book of Judith Pt. 2
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Star Plato continue their discussion of the book of Judith. Specifically, they discuss Judith's "strategy" of using her beauty to trick the Assyrians. What is the meaning and power of female beauty?We're running a last chance sale on our 2026 Conference "Man…
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Is there Gender in the Soul? | The Metaphysics of Gender w/ D. C. Schindler
Do men and women differ only in regards to the body? Or, can we speak of there being a "feminine" soul and a "male" soul? How do we explain the different ways that men and women relate to their bodies? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and D. C. Schindler discuss the different ways of explaining…
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Catholic Social Teaching and the New Evangelization w/ Cy Kellett
Pope St. John Paul II claimed that "the 'new evangelization', which the modern world urgently needs must include among its essential elements a proclamation of the Church's social doctrine" (Centesimus Annus 5). In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Cy Kellett, host of Catholic Answers Live, discuss…
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Slaying Holofernes: The Book of Judith and Women's Heroism
"The Lord struck him down by the hand of a female!" Is the story of Judith a rejection of male power and patriarchy? What does Judith show about how power is used differently between men and women? How does God reveal his power in the actions of men and women? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and…
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Esther and the Paradoxical Power of Sexual Difference
Esther defeats the idolatrous god-king through the strange power of weakness. Join Marc and Maria’s discussion of monolithic and idolatrous power structures and their vulnerability to the particular vocation of women. Catch up with Episode 1: youtu.be/Glj3ojZERvw?si=G1CfeS7pD2cf9TxdYou can follow...
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The Metaphysical Problem of Sexual Difference w/ D. C. Schindler
What is the metaphysical difference between man and woman? Philosophy has long had a problem explaining the difference between men and women, even though it is a basic and fundamental reality. Are men and women different essentially? Is there a particularly "female soul" and a "male soul?" Is the...
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The Story of Esther and Women's Vocation
What do the matriarchs of the Old Testament teach us regarding the roles of men and women? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss the biblical story of Esther and how it reveals the specific vocation of women. We are two months away from New Polity's 2026 conference "Man, Woman,...
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Is the Iran War a Just War? | A Discussion of Catholic Social Teaching
The Iran War is close to entering its third week, and hostilities continue to escalate. Off-ramps for de-escalation are closing and the American public is, largely, unsupportive of the war. In this podcast, Alex Denley hosts a roundtable discussion with three professors of the College of St.…
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Man and Woman: Sexual Difference and the Political Order
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Michael Boland discuss the upcoming New Polity magazine, Issue 7.1, on Man and Woman. Specifically, they discuss the philosophical and metaphysical problems of sexual difference, and how our understanding of man and woman impacts our view of politics. Subscribe to...
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Debate: Should We Delete Catholic AI? | Matthew Sanders, CEO of Longbeard, and Marc Barnes
In this podcast, Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard (creator of MagisteriumAI), and Marc Barnes, editor of New Polity, debate whether Catholics should build and use AI chatbots. Barnes argues that Catholic AI chatbots are objectively evil because they generate probabilistic statements about...
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Pope Leo XIV on AI Chatbots: Preserving Human Voices and Faces
What is the Catholic response to AI? Pope Leo XIV, in his recent message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, takes a critical look at AI: namely, how it is "encroach[ing] upon the deepest level of communication, that of human relationships." Pope Leo asserts that our faces and voices...
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AI Writing and the Collapse of a Literate Culture
The book has long been the place of completed thought, able to incorporate previous work and advance new thought. That is going away. AI generation is polluting the discourse; leading to a state where all "new" publications are, in fact, summarized AI restatements of the previous state of the...
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We Survived Another Year | 2025 Wrap-up
Happy New Year! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss New Polity's 2025 year, the books and magazines published, and look ahead to the New Year. Thank you to everyone who read or listened to us this year. Check out our essays: https://newpolity.com/essaysSubscribe to New Polity...
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Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave | New Polity 2026
We are excited to announce New Polity's 2026 conference: Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave. Learn more and register at https://newpolity.com/2026 The sixth annual New Polity conference aims to refute bad ideas concerning marriage and sexual difference; to debate the metaphysics of man and woman; to argue...
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America's Structures of Sin
We are excited to announce our next New Polity Magazine: Issue 6.4 on The Critique of America, featuring essays by Reuben Slife, David L. Schindler, Michael Hanby, John Byron Kuhner and more. Pre-order is now available! Visit: https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-4In this podcast, Marc Barnes…
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Debate: Is it Wrong to Talk with an AI Chatbot?
Marc Barnes believes that AI chatbots are evil, and that having a faux conversation with AI chatbots is wrong. Joseph Hobbs, Senior Solution Architect at Databricks, disagrees. In this podcast, they discuss the nature of conversation, how AI imitates conversation, and the Catholic response to AI...
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Christianity Against the Technocratic Paradigm
In this podcast, Alex Denley and Marc Barnes discuss the upcoming New Polity magazine on AI, the Church's social teaching on technocracy and the technocratic paradigm, and the Christian response to Artificial Intelligence. Pre-order our double issue of New Polity magazine on Artificial...
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The Medium is the Message w/ Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi
Technology has given an untrained humanity unprecedented power over itself. Peter Berkman, following Marshall McLuhan and Romano Guardini, argues that the "digital world" has rapidly replaced other modes of human interaction, and AI presents a rapid acceleration of that movement. In this podcast,...
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Building Strong Towns after the American Decline w/ Charles Marohn
America was a place of untold wealth in the post-war period. But today, many small towns are faltering and facing financial collapse. In this podcast, Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn sits down with Marc Barnes and Jacob Hyman to discuss how this collapse came about, and how to...
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What Christians Should Do in an AI World
We are happy to announce the next issue of New Polity Magazine, dedicated specifically to Artificial Intelligence! Featuring essays by Matthew Crawford, Slavoj Žižek, D. C. Schindler, Michael Hanby, Andrew Willard Jones, and many more. Subscribe by October 1st to receive this issue!...
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Globalization and the Rise of Populist Politics
In this podcast, Alex Denley and Professor Rocco Buttiglione discuss the problem of globalization, mass migration, and populism. Post-war globalization brought a great increase in international trade, cooperation, technical and educational development, and cultural sharing. However, with open…
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The Politics of the Real with D. C. Schindler
Liberalism is on the defensive. Political discussion is shifting from “what’s wrong with liberalism” to “what’s true about politics”—to the question of what exactly must displace liberalism. In The Politics of the Real, D. C. Schindler takes us to the definitive metaphysical roots of liberal...
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Should Christians Use ChatGPT?
The development and use of AI chatbots has grown massively. With hundreds of millions of users, OpenAI, XAI, Claude AI, and others have become a normal part of many people's day. Some Christians have an uneasy attitude toward the use of AI Chatbots, while others are supportive and have developed...
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The Catholic Answer to Nationalism
Professor Rocco Buttiglione and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss the rise of nationalism and populism both in Europe and America. What is the proper Catholic understanding of the peoples and nations? How should we navigate a global economic order within modern nation-states? They discuss how the...
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The Crisis of Authority with D. C. Schindler
D. C. Schindler argues that the loss of authority is the greatest of all human crises. When Nietzsche speaks of the death of God, which will lead to calamities, Schindler sees the great loss of authority. Liberalism's dismantling of any authority in favor of the sovereign individual has lead to…
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It's 2025. It's Time for Catholic Social Teaching
We live in a disillusioned political age, one where old liberal arguments no longer have hold. Conservatism has moved into a right-wing politics which no longer sees the value of Christianity. Lost in an ostensibly equal mass, individuals have experienced a loss of identity. New developments in...
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The Praxis of Resistance | Magazine 6.1 Review
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the latest New Polity magazine, Issue 6.1, and specifically the translation of Alberto Methol Ferré's striking essay "The Church, People Among the Peoples." Is the Church a visible people, or a people among the peoples? How does the Church...
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Rocco Buttiglione: A Life Among Popes, Saints, and Politicians
In this podcast, Reuben Slife interviews Rocco Buttiglione about his life and work. Buttiglione was promised by Luigi Guissani, the founder of Communion and Liberation, that a Christian life will never be boring; taking this wager, he discusses his studies with Augusto Del Noce, his early...
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Pope Leo: Rerum Novarum and Catholic Social Teaching on the 134th anniversary
In honor of the new Pope Leo XIV, and in celebration of the 134th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Alex Denley and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII and the birth of modern Catholic Social Teaching. Our conference is two weeks away! Spots are still open:...
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What We Got from Pope Francis
In honor of the passing of the Pope, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife discuss the life of Francis and the theology which he embodied: the theology of peoples. They also discuss Rocco Buttiglione's new book Modernity's Alternative and how Latin America formed the Pope's pastoral life and mission....
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Technocracy and the Vital Force in Man | Matthew Crawford
At the 2024 New Polity conference, Matthew B. Crawford gave the keynote address in which he contrasted the view of man inherent in technocratic rationalism with that of a Christian view. Drawing from the work of Joseph Ratzinger and Michael Oakeshott, Crawford draws a distinction between an...
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Modernity's Alternative and Theology of the Peoples
Pre-order for Modernity's Alternative is now available! In this podcast, Reuben Slife and Marc Barnes discuss a new book from New Polity press: Modernity's Alternative by Rocco Buttiglione. In the 20th century, a movement of priests and laypeople sought to find a way past the clash of ideologies...
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What is a Nation?
What is the difference between a people and a nation? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Ernest Renan's influential lecture "What is a nation?". Renan argues that a nation is not formed by common descent, language, religion, or geography. Rather, a nation is a spiritual…
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The Heroic Life of St. Thomas More
In this special episode of Political Saints, Marc Barnes and Nicolas McAfee discuss the heroic political life of St. Thomas More. Thomas More was the Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529 until 1531. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and was executed....
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Subsidiarity: How to Dismantle the Bureaucratic State
For the last five years, the Political Right has been debating over a program for regime change in America: should populism be used to construct a new elite class? Should a new administration retire all government employees? Can the bureaucratic state be maintained but filled with new…
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The Unity of the Nations | Joseph Ratzinger
What is the meaning of national identity? Does strong national identity necessarily create a hostile relation with other nations? In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Joseph Ratzinger's short book "The Unity of Nations." Through a discussion of the political theology of Origen and...
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The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood
Registration is open for New Polity Conference 2025! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's book "The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood." What is distinct about the brotherhood of Christians? Are there different ethical modes of acting to the brother and…
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The Future is Always Worse Than You Think | Andrew Willard Jones
Are we headed to a grand and glorious technological future? In this talk, Andrew Willard Jones expects the opposite: "The Future is Always Worse Than You Think It Will Be." As he explains, there are two paths with the development on new technologies: one which leads to an extension of the humane...
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The Case for Sex Discrimination | Mag Review 5.3
Registration for New Polity 2025 conference is now open! Don't miss out on our early bird price: https://newpolity.com/events/2025 In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley review the latest New Polity Magazine, Issue 5.3, which includes articles on sex discrimination in the workplace, the...
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Our Kind of People | New Polity 2025
Register here for New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People The fifth annual New Polity conference takes “the people” as its theme and object of wonder. Motivated by the apparent victory of populism in the United States’ 2024 election, and inspired by the Holy Roman Pontiff’s love for Latin America’s...
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