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Thinking Beyond Liberalism

  1. 12/29/2025

    We Survived Another Year | 2025 Wrap-up

    Happy New Year! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss New Polity's 2025 year, the books and magazines published, and look ahead to the New Year. Thank you to everyone who read or listened to us this year. Check out our essays: https://newpolity.com/essaysSubscribe to New Polity Magazine! https://newpolity.com/magazineCheck out our 2026 Conference! https://newpolity.com/2026Please consider donating at https://newpolity.com/donate

    1h 4m

  2. 12/19/2025

    Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave | New Polity 2026

    We are excited to announce New Polity's 2026 conference: Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave. Learn more and register at https://newpolity.com/2026 The sixth annual New Polity conference aims to refute bad ideas concerning marriage and sexual difference; to debate the metaphysics of man and woman; to argue for a profound continuity between the order of man and woman and the political and cosmic order as a whole; to shed a light on the tyranny-destroying potential of marriage; and, in sum, to rediscover the mystery and purpose of sexual difference as revealed by the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the relation of man and woman, the metaphysical implications, and the conference.

    27 min

  3. 12/11/2025

    America's Structures of Sin

    We are excited to announce our next New Polity Magazine: Issue 6.4 on The Critique of America, featuring essays by Reuben Slife, David L. Schindler, Michael Hanby, John Byron Kuhner and more. Pre-order is now available! Visit: https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-4In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Michael Boland discuss the critique of America, structures of sin, and the idea of the American people. Check out our essays: https://newpolity.com/essaysSubscribe to New Polity Magazine! https://newpolity.com/magazineHelp us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

    51 min

  4. 11/06/2025

    Debate: Is it Wrong to Talk with an AI Chatbot?

    Marc Barnes believes that AI chatbots are evil, and that having a faux conversation with AI chatbots is wrong. Joseph Hobbs, Senior Solution Architect at Databricks, disagrees. In this podcast, they discuss the nature of conversation, how AI imitates conversation, and the Catholic response to AI Chatbots. Our double issue of New Polity magazine on Artificial Intelligence is now available for purchase! Including essays by Matthew Crawford, Slavoj Žižek, D. C. Schindler, and many more. Buy now at https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-23We depend on your generous support. Please consider donating at https://www.newpolity.com/donate

    1h 42m

  5. 10/28/2025

    Christianity Against the Technocratic Paradigm

    In this podcast, Alex Denley and Marc Barnes discuss the upcoming New Polity magazine on AI, the Church's social teaching on technocracy and the technocratic paradigm, and the Christian response to Artificial Intelligence. Pre-order our double issue of New Polity magazine on Artificial Intelligence!https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-23A double issue of New Polity Magazine on Artificial Intelligence.Andrew Willard Jones on the Humane and the Technocratic. Matthew Crawford on Losing Ourselves in AI. Paul Kingsnorth on Our Unsettling. Slavoj Žižek on the Death of the Internet. Michael Hanby on the Abolition of Intelligence.Mâinile Strigoilor on the AI Bubble.D. C. Schindler on the Essential Duplicity of AI. Alex Denley on the Technocratic Paradigm.Paul Denley on AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol.Michael Boland on Descartes’ Automaton daughter.Ronald Klingler on our AI future. With poetry by James Donald Forbes McCann.And, a short story by Joseph Patrick.

    1h 9m

  6. 10/08/2025

    The Medium is the Message w/ Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi

    Technology has given an untrained humanity unprecedented power over itself. Peter Berkman, following Marshall McLuhan and Romano Guardini, argues that the "digital world" has rapidly replaced other modes of human interaction, and AI presents a rapid acceleration of that movement. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Peter Berkman discuss this development and the Christian response. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine by Oct 13th to receive Issue 6.2/3 on Artificial Intelligence! Peter is a member of the band Anamanaguchi. Check out their new album "Anyway": Check out Peter’s essay "Will There Be an AI Apocalypse?"

    1h 29m

  7. 10/02/2025

    Building Strong Towns after the American Decline w/ Charles Marohn

    America was a place of untold wealth in the post-war period. But today, many small towns are faltering and facing financial collapse. In this podcast, Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn sits down with Marc Barnes and Jacob Hyman to discuss how this collapse came about, and how to rebuild the small town. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! https://newpolity.com/magazine. Check out our books: https://newpolity.com/press Read our essays: https://newpolity.com/essays.

    59 min

  8. 09/06/2025

    What Christians Should Do in an AI World

    We are happy to announce the next issue of New Polity Magazine, dedicated specifically to Artificial Intelligence! Featuring essays by Matthew Crawford, Slavoj Žižek, D. C. Schindler, Michael Hanby, Andrew Willard Jones, and many more. Subscribe by October 1st to receive this issue! https://newpolity.com/magazine. Alex Denley and Marc Barnes discuss the Christian response to AI, how to safeguard human freedom, and AI as a new industrial revolution. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine! https://newpolity.com/magazine. Check out our books: https://newpolity.com/press Read our essays: https://newpolity.com/essays.

    2h 4m
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