Laurie Johnson talks about her new book, published by Wipf & Stock, Cascade Books, and about her upcoming live sessions discussing themes from the book.
Synopsis of the book: https://pmaurin.org/2024/10/23/published-the-gap-in-gods-country-a-longer-view-on-our-culture-wars/ … More Published and for sale: The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars
My latest book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars, published by Wipf & Stock/Cascade Books, was just published, and you can get it in paperback or electronic editions. I will be doing some live sessions through The Maurin Academy in November and December on themes from the book. I hope you get it now, and join us for these live sessions to discuss what’s going on in the US at a deeper “longer view” level. We need this discussion now more than ever. Here are the links you need to get the book and to get in on the sessions. … More The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars: Now in Paperback and Kindle
You know what they say… This is the third and final part of the interview I did with Dr Jeremy Cowan, an expert in organic and permaculture agriculture, we conclude our reflections on Distributism by breaking both taboos. In this one we deal with the role of religion and politics in changing the way we grow food, but we do more than that. We delve into questions such as why religion is often unhelpful and how it could be otherwise, why political divisions get in the way and what might solve that problem … More Religion and Politics–Whoops, We Talked About Both (Jeremy Cowan Interview Part 3)
In this conversation with Jakob Hanschu, Fulbright scholar at the University of Nottingham, we discuss a wide range of topics all centered around human impact on the environment. Subjects include New Materialism theory and the insights it provides on large monoculture farming, insights from the psychological theories of Freud, Jung and Lacan (particularly the shadow, death drive and jouissance), Mark Fisher, Jacques Ellul’s concept of “technique”, the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, and the effects of secularism on humanity’s view of its place in nature. … More Conversation with Jakob Hanschu: On Responsibility in the Anthropocene (Part 1)
Some remarks summing up studies in environmental and agricultural political thought. Among the topics covered is a discussion of the irony that people living in the “breadbasket” of America often deal with “food deserts” and suffer from growing precarity. … More Problems in America’s Breadbasket
Using agriculture as an example it’s possible to see the impact of neoliberal economics and politics on family, neighborhood, community, religion, local independence and small business. … More Neoliberalism and Agriculture
Political Philosophy 