The myth of equality is a tactic for hiding the deployment of tyrannical power. Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes unpack this assertion in today's episode.

Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes answer your questions, and describe the way the Church is, and is not, tyrannical.

Large-scale governance isn't bad, but in the hands of tyrants, it becomes a tool for alienating and atomizing the particular person from his family, friends, and his own creative reasoning, stifling rebellion before it begins.

Large-scale governance isn't bad, but in the hands of tyrants, it becomes a tool for alienating and atomizing the particular person from his family, friends, and his own creative reasoning, stifling rebellion before it begins.

In this episode, Andrew and Marc take a deep dive into the nature of propaganda, as the primary way a tyrant creates a man-made world.

Thomas Aquinas says "cruelty" is a vice proper to tyrants. In this episode, Andrew and Marc argue that this infliction of pain is necessary, if the tyrant is going to make up for the motivating power he loses when he chooses to rule for private gain rather than the common good.

In this episode, Andrew and Marc describe bureaucracy as a necessary tool in tyranny's toolkit, and try to remind everyone that they are, in fact, a special little snowflake.

Following New Polity's Good Money podcast, this brand new series explores Good Politics. How? By contrasting it with Really Bad Politics—tyranny. In this episode, Andrew Jones and Marc Barnes describe and dissect our tyrannical social order, its technological mechanisms, its structural nature, and the Catholic alternative—a politics of peace.