New Polity

Updated review: The New Polity AI episodes might be the most important listening you’ll ever do (aside from podcasts on faith & that help your Vocation). Wow. I’m blown away. These guys and Paul Kingsnorth are doing the best work right now to open eyes and ears to the dangers of the technocracy. I’m so grateful for their brilliant, eloquent, and thorough examinations of this topic which will affect all of us. ———— Old review: The ideas presented are usually great, but at times the hosts can be a bit condescending (with the exception of Andrew, who is my favorite for this reason). All of the hosts are clearly intelligent, but Andrew’s humility and ability to “dumb it down” a bit makes him the best host. To know something well is to be able to teach it in simple terms, and I appreciate that on dense topics. I still recommend, especially since the topics are so relevant and important to this time in history. Still, I think they could expand their listener base if they explained things more simply and with more humility/less dismissiveness when describing opposing views.

For the most part this podcast and new polity are concerned about being Christian through and through. They express this particularly by exposing the aspects of contemporary thinking and ethics that have no basis in Christianity but in Liberalism. The podcast endeavors to dissect liberalism in order to show our blind spot for it as well as offer the classical perspective liberalism has replaced. They focus, it seems, mostly on the political and economical order. Great listen.

The episodes are great and informative. I love new polity magazine. You will definitely enjoy the listen more if you have a surface level understanding of metaphysics and great thinkers like Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hobbes etc. overall the Newpolity podcasts have me deep in thought about what it should look like to be a Catholic American

Though my armchair is the drivers seat of my pickup truck. I appreciate the musings of Jacob and Mark and their guests, at times I feel like I’m receiving my internal philosophy externally, other times it feels like a black-pill suppository. Either way, I’m encouraged to hear Catholic intellectuals muse about proper forms of politics and the ‘localism’ of our faith in practice. If you listen you will feel a little like David going up against Goliath, it will encourage you, and hopefully provoke you to live more purposefully poor. Take pleasure in your poverty, it has encouraged me to not feel so terribly miserable about my meager means. Cheers, great podcast. I’d order your magazines if I had the money. They look very well done. By the way, check out the website, lots of good articles.