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 details and tickets will be available in July. In this podcast, Marc Barnes interviews participants at the Future of Life event in Washington D.C. on their projects, thinking on AI, and how an anti-chatbot alliance can be formed.
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.
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 brute fact of the sexually differentiated body the basis for sexual difference, or does that presuppose the problem? In man and woman are we dealing with an opposition or a contrariety? In this new podcast series, Marc Barnes and D. C. Schindler discuss the metaphysics of sexual difference, arguing for a new approach to the question.
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.
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 the faith, are irresponsible in their responses, and are inherently fake conversations with non-persons. Sanders argues that Catholics should embrace this new technological development and that there is an openness from the Vatican about the creation of a true artificial intelligence. This debate is hosted by Edmund Mitchell of the Faith and AI Project.
In this episode of political saints, Andrew Willard Jones, author of "Before Church and State", discusses the life of King St. Louis IX. Dr. Jones shows how Louis fulfilled his role as king within his role as laity. Instead of the modern way of viewing Church and State as in tension with one another, King Louis saw himself as a lay member of the Church sanctifying the temporal order.
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss the highlights from New Polity Magazine 4.2, including the rise of bourgeois society by Christopher Dawson, critiques of the stock market by John Medaille, and more.
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In this episode of political saints, Fr. Daniel Utrecht of the Toronto Oratory and Jacob Imam discuss the life of Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen. Blessed Clemens was bishop of Münster, Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. He published numerous condemnations of the Nazi regime and helped draft Pope Pius XI's anti-Nazi encyclical Mit brenneder Sorge. In 1946, he was made a cardinal of the Church. On October 9th, 2005, Clemens was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Nazis decapitated Bl. Franz Jägerstätter for refusing to take the oath to Hitler. In hindsight, everyone can recognize his bravery and integrity. At the time, no one could. Jacob Imam and Reuben Slife are convinced most of us would have caved. See how Bl. Franz didn't.
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Blessed Alcuin of York—the dearest advisor to Emperor Charlamagne, the learned founder of Cathedral schools, and the august inventor of the question mark—teaches us that the greatest politicians are the greatest saints. Join Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes as they discuss the Carolingian plan for making every man a Christian.
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How does an oligarchical society avoid falling down the tyrannical toilet? In this episode, Dr. Andrew Willard Jones and Dr. Alex Plato examine Plato's regime forms and the modern tendency to take the "tyrannical regime" as its formal baseline (including many Catholics). Join in today for a discussion on why we cannot keep making these mistakes and an alternative way forward.
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What makes socialism the greatest Catholic heresy? Check out this final episode of Throwback Thursday to hear Andrew Willard Jones and Jacob Imam discuss the deadly brilliance of socialism: what makes it so attractive, and how even its deepest insights into human nature are twisted into man's destruction.
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All politics is local. In this episode, Nathan Bird and Marc Barnes discuss subsidiarity in action and why you should care about city code, from Chattanooga to Steubenville.
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Roe v. Wade constrained the abortion debate to an argument over rights. Now that Roe is dead, pro-lifers have a unique opportunity to argue against abortion in a specifically non-liberal mode: as a wickedness that supplants the relational reality of the human person, falsely individualizing us all. Marc Barnes and Andrew Jones discuss.
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