Category: Political Philosophy Podcasts

Why the Fights, Infidelities, Serial Marriages, & Kids Raised by Grandparents? (Hillbilly Elegy 3)

September 15, 2024

Laurie discusses the phenomenon of generational trauma and repeating the same stupid mistakes, a syndrome caused by long-term generational poverty and exposure to prejudice, in the process of unpacking JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy Chapters 3 and 4. She’ll respond to more questions from the last Hillbilly bookclub session as well as this one, in an upcoming video. … More Why the Fights, Infidelities, Serial Marriages, & Kids Raised by Grandparents? (Hillbilly Elegy 3)

JPII Catholic Worker Farm Update: Goat Mowers & Accommodations Coming Together! August 2024

August 19, 2024

Laurie talks with Spencer and Emily Hess about how things are going on the JPII Catholic Worker Farm in KCMO. 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 Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of the Maurin Academy, which can be found on almost all podcast platforms! Follow the Maurin Academy … More JPII Catholic Worker Farm Update: Goat Mowers & Accommodations Coming Together! August 2024

The Fragmented Self in Modern Liberalism (V.S. Naipaul, One Out of Many, 3) & Future Plans

July 29, 2024

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

Unfree in Freedom/Unequal in Equality (One Out of Many, VS Naipaul 2, The Gap in God’s Country)

July 15, 2024

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)

Dustbowl Danse Macabre: Dustbowl Diatribes Season 3, Ep. 20

July 14, 2024

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

Dislocation: Alone in the World (One Out of Many/In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul) Gap in God’s Country

July 10, 2024

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

Future Plans & Thoughts on Plato (ft. Carl Jung, Charles Taylor, Plato…)

July 2, 2024

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