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.
Thomas doesn't comment on modern gender theory—directly. But in this podcast, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell explore how Thomas' notion of "human law" (combined with the brilliant insight of Ivan Illych on modern gender) help us grasp how our primordial task to image God as creative "world-builders" manifests the realm of gender.
New Polity is very excited to announce the opening of its Make Shop in Steubenville—a place where locals can get access to productive property, learn new skills, and receive business support in selling what they make. Mike Sullivan, local contractor and former president of Catholics United for the Faith, sits down with Jacob Imam to discuss the shop as well as a few ideas about work and ownership.
Small farming is a living critique of industrial capitalism, a rebellion against tyrannies established through widespread fear of and the presumption of scarcity . . . and a tasty way to live. Shawn and Beth Dougherty discuss—and romanticize!—their garden of Eden against the ideologies of modernity.
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