Mark your calendars! The “last Marxist” Chris Cutrone, one of the founders of the Platypus Society, will be our guest for a live speech on Zoom with Q & A starting at 7 p.m. US Central Time, April 22. Cutrone has given several interviews on our own Dustbowl Diatribes podcast, and he is a frequent … Read more
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On Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, Deacon Christopher May will be leading a session on The Universal Destination of Goods, live on Zoom. Our prevailing economic order assumes that ownership of property implies the right to almost any arbitrary use, or non-use, of that property. However, the Catholic tradition teaches that … Read more
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Ryan Dostal’s next session for the Maurin Academy will be on Monday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom. Seed saving saves money and encourages plants that work well in your region.Register on Eventbrite or join us on Patreon! Reminder that our classes are always recorded so if you can’t make it, we’d encourage … Read more
Ryan Dostal’s next session for the Maurin Academy will be on Monday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom, in which he will discuss how to optimize your gardening, no matter what size, by strategically timing your plantings of various crops. Register on Eventbrite or join us on Patreon! On Tuesday, November 28 at … Read more
About: In this four-week online series, Spencer Hess and Laurie Johnson will lead a discussion of Wendell Berry’s most influential prose work, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. As the title implies, Berry argues that how we live, how we grow our food, and how we eat are interrelated matters. That “eating is an … Read more
Peter Maurin’s Easy Essays encourage Catholic Workers interested in constructing a new social order to read the personalist revolutionaries: Emmanuel Mounier and Jacques Maritain. These personalist and communitarian philosophers also inspired Fr. Jose Maria Arizmindi, the founder of Mondragon, the world’s largest industrial worker-owned cooperative. What can Mondragon illustrate about Peter Maurin’s program that Catholic … Read more
Dr. Laurie M. Johnson will be holding three workshops on arguments she’s developing for her upcoming book, “The Gap in God’s Country: Toward Repairing Our Rural/Urban Divide.” The aim is to discuss some of the arguments being developed in the book. The subjects will include the disruption to rural life with the advent of large-scale … Read more
Here’s a preview video of Spencer’s first session on Romano Guardini’s, The End of the Modern World. In his first session, Spencer gives a brief introduction to Romano Guardini, himself and the Maurin Academy, and covers the first chapter and a half of the book. You can still sign up for this series either on … Read more