New Polity

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.

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.

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The ‘evils’ put forward as those elements which make cities bad and ugly are the same elements which allow philosophers and the rest of us the freedom to even imagine implementing less utilitarian policies and systems in our cities. Well thought out and sincere discussion all the same and I acknowledge my own cynical pragmatism plays into my interpretations of the podcast. Worth listening to.