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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.
Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes explore their own organization's capacity for converting alt-right types; while Josiah, a former alt-right type, explains his discovery that the hard-right is just as steeped in liberalism as the left.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Andrew Willard Jones and Alex Plato redefine politics and discuss power and how it should be used in the ideal Christian society.
In this podcast, Alex Plato and Jacob discuss virtue—what it is, who has it, and how to get it.
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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.