This is where I post my YouTube videos and audio versions thereof. You can find the podcast directly on iTunes, Spotify and Google podcasts.
Dr Fred Neuhouser gives a talk for patrons of the Maurin Academy inspired by his recent book, Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Durkheim (Cambridge University Press, 2022). This is the public portion of his talk. … More Can Societies Fall Ill? Diagnosing Social Pathologies, with Dr Fred Neuhouser (Maurin Academy Guest Speaker)
You’re lucky Laurie isn’t ending that sentence the way Kendrick does.
Get Laurie’s book, The Gap in God’s Country in hardcover, paperback and kindle/e-edition. Kindle: https://a.co/d/9m0zrg8 … More HUMBLE IS What We Need – Sit Down!
Laurie discusses some plans for guest speakers, her new Great Books reading group, and plans for the channel. … More Coming Up: The Maurin Academy Speaker Series and Beyond
Can Societies Fall Ill? Diagnosing Social Pathology, with Dr Fred Neuhouser, coming up Feb. 22, join us on the Maurin Academy Patreon for this important talk, or register on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-societies-fall-ill-diagnosing-social-pathology-with-neuhouser-tickets-1230572488439?aff=oddtdtcreator Be a patron of our speaker series and help us keep our sanity and yours! We need you there!
Dr. Laurie M. Johnson discussing themes from her new book, subtitled A Longer View On Our Culture Wars, focusing on solving political disputes. This session dealt with direct action vs. the charity model. Get the book: https://a.co/d/9sJwfDe Kindle: https://a.co/d/9m0zrg8 … More Direct Action vs. Liberal Charity (Gap in God’s Country Segment from Session5 )
Spencer and Laurie talk with Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies. Studebaker will give a speech for the Maurin Academy March 3, 2025.
Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy … More Gazing Into the Abyss of Deep Pluralism (w/ Benjamin Studebaker) Dustbowl Diatribes SO 3, Ep. 27
These are segments of the fourth session in Dr. Laurie M Johnson’s 5-part series on her new book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars (Wipf & Stock, 2024).
Dr. Laurie M. Johnson discussing themes from her new book, subtitled A Longer View On Our Culture Wars, focusing on solving political disputes. You can see all five full sessions of this series, and a lot more, by joining the Maurin Academy on Patreon. … More Narcissistic Leaders in Church and State–Segments from Session 4 of The Gap in God’s Country series
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard are investigative journalists, and together they have produced a wide-ranging account of how governments, NGO’s and global corporations collude to extract wealth from taxpayers, workers and the poorest of the poor. The overall lesson of this book is that corporate governance has replaced liberal democratic government in the developed world, and in the developing world, colonial overlordship has given way to international corporate power. … More New Review: Silent Coup by Provost & Kennard
On Thursday, January 23 at 7 p.m. US Central Time I’ll be online for a check-in with patrons and supporters of the Maurin Academy. I will discuss what’s coming up at TMA. In February we are having Prof. Fred Neuhauser talk to us about his research on social pathologies, so I’ll give some background on who Neuhauser is, and how his theme of social pathology fits into the TMA concerns … More Maurin Academy Check-In Coming Up!
Political Philosophy 