Gender Trouble III: Constructing Reality | The Politics of Gender

Gender Trouble III: Constructing Reality | The Politics of Gender

Gender is a social construct. And so is sex. And so is everything else. Maria Brandell and Marc Barnes finish the first chapter of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and try to show the difference between academic postmodernism and the naive identity politics of popular transgender and queer identity construction.

Introduction to Tyranny | The Politics of Tyranny

Introduction to Tyranny | The Politics of Tyranny

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.