EVENTS
2025: Our Kind of People (May 29-31, 2025)
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 “theology of the people,” this meeting of theologians, philosophers (and, let’s face it, preachers) is devoted to thinking deeply about "the people." All of this is up for discussion and debate, the subject of our good humor and great conversation at New Polity 2025: Our Kind of People.
2024: Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers? (May 23–25, 2024)
The 4th annual New Polity conference, "Should We, Therefore, Destroy the Servers?," is a three-day opportunity to consider, discuss, and debate technology as to its nature, its status as a totalizing form of life, its effects on politics, and the possibilities and limits of doing something about it.
2023: Redeeming Politics: Money, Sex, & Power
(May 5–6, 2023)
You've been excited by the Christian tradition concerning money. You've been worried that our society fits the classical definition of a tyranny. Maybe you've even slogged your way through a Christian theory of gender. Now, log off and take a road trip to Steubenville, Ohio, to meet some of your favorite New Polity thinkers. We'll think together, pray together, and converse together, building on the foundations of previous discussions in order to understand and enact a redeemed model of Catholic politics.
2022: Is America a Tyranny? (June 3-4)
Is a country founded on the premises of liberalism doomed to become a tyranny? Was the United States so founded? These questions are urgent, and the answers are up for debate at New Polity’s second annual conference.
2021: Founding the Christian Society
Liberal societies confuse man’s relationship with God and neighbor; they establish civic peace through fear instead of justice; they follow a “city plan” of violence. But the Christian city ought to be built according to a blueprint of love.
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