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Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
March 1, 2022
Gender

Gender Trouble V: Gender Identity Does Not Exist | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
March 1, 2022
Gender
Gender Trouble V: Gender Identity Does Not Exist | The Politics of Gender

Queer theory is all about the search for one's authentic sexual identity and the freedom to express it—or is it? Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss the conclusions of Butler's queer theory and the ultimate aim of its political project.

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Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 24, 2022
Gender

Gender Trouble IV: Butler Against Origin Stories | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 24, 2022
Gender
Gender Trouble IV: Butler Against Origin Stories | The Politics of Gender

Whoever controls the narrative, controls the truth. So can "constructing a new narrative" actually liberate oppressed identities? Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell explore the Butlerian critique of gender structuralists to find out.

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Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 16, 2022
Gender

Gender Trouble III: Constructing Reality | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 16, 2022
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.

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Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 8, 2022
Gender

Gender Trouble II: Feminism and the Original Woman | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 8, 2022
Gender
Gender Trouble II: Feminism and the Original Woman | The Politics of Gender

Feminism can't figure out what women are, at least not without excluding someone. Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell explicate Judith Butler's troubling of feminism in the second part of their book club on Gender Trouble.

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Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 1, 2022
Gender

Gender Trouble I: The Postmodern Context | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
February 1, 2022
Gender
Gender Trouble I: The Postmodern Context | The Politics of Gender

Join Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell's book club on Judith Butler's queer theory classic, "Gender Trouble." Part I features a look into the text's backdrop, postmodernism—and its unexpected confirmation of Catholic doctrine.

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Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
January 25, 2022
Gender

The Debate over Gender is Not Going Well | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes, Maria Brandell
January 25, 2022
Gender
The Debate over Gender is Not Going Well | The Politics of Gender

Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss how their dissatisfaction with both sides of the gender debate led them to take a closer look at the Catholic theological tradition.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
January 11, 2022
Politics

War | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
January 11, 2022
Politics
War | The Politics of Tyranny

In this final episode of the Politics of Tyranny, Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes attempt to tie together the many techniques of tyrants into one, comprehensive package: war. All tyranny is the expansion of the state of war into places of peace for the sake of private gain.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
January 5, 2022
Politics

Population Control | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
January 5, 2022
Politics
Population Control | The Politics of Tyranny

Population control isn't just in the forced sterilizations and genocides of tyrannical regimes. It is wherever people subordinate the human good of procreation to the punishments and rewards of the regime. We're all eunuchs now, say Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes.

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Andrew Willard Jones, Marc Barnes, and Jacob Fareed Imam
December 28, 2021
Politics

Christmas Special

Andrew Willard Jones, Marc Barnes, and Jacob Fareed Imam
December 28, 2021
Politics
Christmas Special

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones, and Jacob Imam riff on Christmas—Santa Claus, God-Kings, Caesar's birth, how Herod died, why Jesus was born among animals, and more.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
December 21, 2021
Politics

Technology | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
December 21, 2021
Politics
Technology | The Politics of Tyranny

Tyranny makes fear the basis of a social order, and technology promises to assuage that fear. Learn about the technology of tyranny from Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
December 14, 2021
Politics

Rebellion | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
December 14, 2021
Politics
Rebellion | The Politics of Tyranny

It's easy to recognize a tyrant. It's hard to recognize a good rebellion. Still, rebellion is a moral obligation for Christians under tyrannies. Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes discuss why, and how you can begin the hard work of rebellion, starting with martyrdom and ending in war.

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Marc Barnes, Jacob Imam
December 8, 2021
Politics

The Social Queenship of Mary

Marc Barnes, Jacob Imam
December 8, 2021
Politics
The Social Queenship of Mary

The Kingship of Christ is paralleled in the Queenship of Mary. Marc Barnes and Jacob Imam spend this Feast of the Immaculate Conception reflecting on Mary, our Queen.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 30, 2021
Politics

Liberty | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 30, 2021
Politics
Liberty | The Politics of Tyranny

For freedom we've been set free, right? So how can freedom be a tool of a tyrant? Spend the next hour with Andrew Willard Jones and Marc Barnes to find out.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 23, 2021
Politics

Equality | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 23, 2021
Politics
Equality | The Politics of Tyranny

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.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 10, 2021
Politics

Is the Church Tyrannical? | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 10, 2021
Politics
Is the Church Tyrannical? | The Politics of Tyranny

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

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 3, 2021
Politics

Fanaticism | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
November 3, 2021
Politics
Fanaticism | The Politics of Tyranny

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.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 26, 2021
Politics

How Tyrants Use Scale | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 26, 2021
Politics
How Tyrants Use Scale | The Politics of Tyranny

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.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 19, 2021
Politics

Propaganda | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 19, 2021
Politics
Propaganda | The Politics of Tyranny

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.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 12, 2021
Politics

Cruelty | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 12, 2021
Politics
Cruelty | The Politics of Tyranny

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.

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Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 6, 2021
Politics

Bureaucracy | The Politics of Tyranny

Marc Barnes, Andrew Willard Jones
October 6, 2021
Politics
Bureaucracy | The Politics of Tyranny

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.

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