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Yes, it’s time for the Hillbilly Elegy Book Club. Leave your comments and Laurie will respond to at least some of them in her next session!
… More Hillbilly Elegy Book Club! Introduction (Analysis of JD Vance’s 2016 book)
Hillbilly Elegy has become an important part of our public discourse, so Laurie is going to dedicate a public book club to this 2016 book. She’ll go chapter by chapter through the book, giving a picture of what JD Vance is saying, from her perspective. Along the way, she’ll be looking at the public comments on our Political Philosophy YouTube channel and responding to them in the next video. … More Hillbilly Elegy Public Book Club!
This is a portion of a monthly Longer View by Dr. Laurie Johnson, responding to a patron’s request to explain why the US doesn’t often election third party candidates. … More Why Does the US Have a Two-Party System?What Could Change That?
Laurie wraps up her discussion of VS Naipaul’s short story One Out of Many, from In a Free State. The discussion centers around the various forms and impacts of liberal modernity and the dislocations it causes. Hillbilly Elegy bookclub is also briefly mentioned. … More The Fragmented Self in Modern Liberalism (V.S. Naipaul, One Out of Many, 3) & Future Plans
On June 24, 2024, The Maurin Academy conducted a live showing of the documentary Eating Up Easter, followed by a Q & A session with the producers Sergio and Elena Rapu. This is the full Q & A session. The documentary deals with the problems and prospects of tourism on the remote island, particularly the … More A Global Wake Up Call From Easter Island: Eating Up Easter Q & A Session with Sergio and Elena Rapu
As we get deeper into Santosh’s experience, we see the 1968 Washington DC riots through his eyes, as he begins to contemplate his unfreedom in a free country and his equality in inequality. … More Unfree in Freedom/Unequal in Equality (One Out of Many, VS Naipaul 2, The Gap in God’s Country)
Laurie and Spencer discuss the implications and reverberations of the recent Maurin Academy lecture by the last Marxist, Chris Cutrone, and their interview with John Rao on Traditionalism and the Roman School. Both men discussed the time period of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Maurin Academy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 Political Philosophy: https://political-philosophy.com … More Dustbowl Danse Macabre: Dustbowl Diatribes Season 3, Ep. 20
Laurie discusses the experience of dislocation and disembedding through a story by V.S. Naipaul, “One Out of Many.” The book the story is from is In a Free State, also by Naipaul. … More Dislocation: Alone in the World (One Out of Many/In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul) Gap in God’s Country
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Laurie reads excerpts from the Thomas Pangle translation of Plato’s Laws, Book 10, which lay out the first mover argument of the Athenian stranger, along with its social context. Join our Patreon to gain access to the course More Real Than the World: Ancient Insights into the Nature of God, and all our other recorded and live content: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy … More The First Mover Argument in Plato’s Laws, Book 10
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