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Technological Post-Humanism (What’s Human About Intelligence: The Ethics of AI, Segment)
Technology and Ethical Limits: The Biggest Challenge of Our Time
Agonistic Politics v Propaganda & Mass Manipulation, ft. Leo Strauss (Heidegger 3)
Heidegger and AI: The Question Concerning Technology Now
“Enframing,” “Standing Reserve” and Other Terms in Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology (2)
Martin Heidegger’s Character (The Question Concerning Technology, 1)
Exploring Elites and Democracy: Insights from Dr. Hugo Drochon
Join Our Four-Part Series on the Sermon on the Mount, Starting Aug. 12
Explore the Maurin Academy YouTube Channel & More
Why We Lost Our Sense of Sacrifice (Creation, Food & Agriculture, Public Clip 3)
How Technical Rationality Breaks Our Bond With Nature (Creation, Food & Agriculture, Public Clip 2)
How Urbanization Caused a (Land) Fertility Crisis Affecting Us All (CFA Public Segment 1)
Leo Strauss on Maimonides and Esoteric Writing
Historicism’s Deadly Effect on Thinking (Persecution and the Art of Writing, 4)
Persecution and Horse Logic (Persecution and the Art of Writing, 3)
Antimodern Progress: The Ideas of Jacques Maritain (Upcoming Class)
Why Exoteric Writing? (Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing, 2)
Introduction to Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss (New Series)
Fair Labor Standards in the United States: A Conversation With Constitutional Law Expert John Fliter
Dislocation as a Symptom of Modernity: The Case of Peter Maurin (Recent Talk)
What AI Means (And Doesn’t Mean) for Our World, with Stephen Paff (Excerpt)
Pastor Caleb Campbell: Disarming Leviathan
The Usefulness of Common Sense in the Age of Digital Deception (Being There 6)
The Vulnerabilities of Democracy in the Age of Image
Romantic Democracy: The Blind Following the Blind. (Kosinski’s Being There, 4)
An Empty Signifier Makes an Ideal Lover (Being There, Part 3)
Victim or Boss? Depends on Your Perspective (Being There, Part 2)
From Gardener to Politician: The Impact of Media in ‘Being There’ (1)
Thomas Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory: Brief Explanation (Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Public Segment #4)
The Quality of Friendships: Does it Matter for Politics? Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Public Segment #3
Introduction to Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, Public Segment #2: The Mean Between Extremes
Introduction to Ivan Illich: A New Maurin Academy Class Starting June 17
The Relationship Between Freedom and Justice (Federalist 51, Part 3)
American Liberty: How Is It Secured? (Federalist 51 Part 2)
Are Checks and Balances Necessary in the US Constitution? (Federalist 51, Part 1)
Madison Would Be Surprised — and Disappointed (Federalist 10, Part 4)
Did Madison Foresee the Demise of Democracy? (Federalist 10, Part 3)
James Madison Warns Against Violent Majority Factions & Demagogues (Federalist 10, Part 2)
New Dialectic of Enlightenment Reading Group Starting March 19, 2025
Federalist 10 Deciphered: Madison on the Dangers of Factions and the Separation of Powers (Part 1)
What Did Plato Say About Democracy and Demagogues?
HUMBLE IS What We Need – Sit Down!
Coming Up: The Maurin Academy Speaker Series and Beyond
Direct Action vs. Liberal Charity (Gap in God’s Country Segment from Session5 )
Gazing Into the Abyss of Deep Pluralism (w/ Benjamin Studebaker) Dustbowl Diatribes SO 3, Ep. 27
Narcissistic Leaders in Church and State–Segments from Session 4 of The Gap in God’s Country series
The Gap in God’s Country: Segments From Session 3
Explore Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self in Monthly Sessions!
The Gap in God’s Country: Segments From Session 2
The Gap in God’s Country – Segments from Session 1
Starting Monday Nov. 18: Gap in God’s Country Sessions–Sign up on Eventbrite or Patreon
Hillbilly Elegy Bookclub Finale: How to Read Books Without Getting Angry
Prof. Martin Chung on “Catholic Social Teaching on Economic Life and the International Community.”
Published and for sale: The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars
Incarnation and the Environment, with Author Jordan Daniel Wood
The Greatest of All Plagues: Economic Inequality From Plato to Marx: Interview w/ David Lay Williams
The Spiritual Crises of Modernity: From Nominalism to Nihilism: Upcoming Maurin Academy Class
Why the Fights, Infidelities, Serial Marriages, & Kids Raised by Grandparents? (Hillbilly Elegy 3)
JPII Catholic Worker Farm Update: Goat Mowers & Accommodations Coming Together! August 2024
Q & A Session: Hillbilly Elegy Bookclub, Introduction
Hillbilly Elegy Book Club! Introduction (Analysis of JD Vance’s 2016 book)
Why Does the US Have a Two-Party System?What Could Change That?
The Fragmented Self in Modern Liberalism (V.S. Naipaul, One Out of Many, 3) & Future Plans
Unfree in Freedom/Unequal in Equality (One Out of Many, VS Naipaul 2, The Gap in God’s Country)
Dustbowl Danse Macabre: Dustbowl Diatribes Season 3, Ep. 20
Dislocation: Alone in the World (One Out of Many/In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul) Gap in God’s Country
Future Plans & Thoughts on Plato (ft. Carl Jung, Charles Taylor, Plato…)
The First Mover Argument in Plato’s Laws, Book 10
The Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic (Seminar 2024 Readings 6)
Plato’s Gorgias: Heaven, Hell, and the In-Between Place (Seminar 2024 Readings 5)
Diotima’s “Ladder of Love” in Plato’s Symposium (Seminar 2024 Readings 4)
The Allegory of The Cave in Plato’s Republic (Seminar 2024 Readings 3)
Plato and the Ring of Gyges Story (Seminar 2024 Readings 2)
Was Plato a Polytheist? (Seminar 2024 Readings 1)
Coming Up: Summer Seminar on Plato and the Next Few Podcasts
Interview with David Holmgren, Co-Founder of the Permaculture Movement
Register Now! Chris Cutrone on the 1848 Revolutions, Live for The Maurin Academy April 22
All Things Aristotle, Including Economics (Interview with Dr Cliff Bates)
Short Take: What is Moral Inversion (Unmasking Administrative Evil, Adams & Balfour)
Localism, Distributism and Libertarianism Aren’t Enough (Personalist Manifesto 6)
Capitalism and Culture: Emmanuel Mounier’s The Personalist Manifesto (5)
Personalism and the Family: Is it Good to Pay for Housework? (Personalist Manifesto 4)
Personalism: Heroes, Saints, and Women (Personalist Manifesto 3)
JPII Farm update: Why Local Ag Draws Opposition (January ’24)
Personalism’s Critique of Socialism and Capitalism (Emmanuel Mounier, Personalist Manifesto, 2)
Introduction to Personalism (Emmanuel Mounier’s The Personalist Manifesto)
Interview with my Dad: Old Foodways and Lifeways
Interview with My Dad: Old Foodways and Lifeways
C.S. Lewis on Old Books: Mind Expanding
Taylor Swift as Cultural Symptom: Coming Up Wednesday! (Audio)
Is Political Friendship Possible in America? (Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics, on Friendship, 6)
Aristotle: Friendship of Unequals: Is it Possible? (5)
Friendship: What Does it Really Mean? (Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics 4)
Virtue and Friendship: Achieving the Mean Between Extremes (Aristotle’s Ethics 3)
How and Why to Become a (Male) Teacher: An Interview with Caleb on Liberal Arts Education K-12.
Intro to Aristotle on Friendship (Nichomachean Ethics 1)
Douglas Lain on Neofeudal Capitalism, Disinformation & Free Speech (Dustbowl Diatribes SO 3, ep 1)
Aristotle on Friendship: A New Series on the Nichomachean Ethics
Take-Aways From Eric Voegelin’s Science, Politics & Gnosticism (6)
What’s Happened to the Liberating Arts? An Interview with Jeffrey Bilbro of the Front Porch Republic