Season 3, Ep. 29: The Three Great Catholic Revivals
John Rao visits Dustbowl Diatribes for an episode tracing periods of “sleep” and revival in Catholic history.
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New Dialectic of Enlightenment Reading Group Starting March 19, 2025
The Maurin Academy is starting a new reading group, organized by Jakob, on Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. You can join this group at the “Trainee” level or above on the Maurin Academy Patreon and gain access to Jakob’s reading group as well as Laurie’s Political Philosophy/Great Books reading group. You can find out … Read more
Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies
Monday, March 3 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, Dr. Benjamin Studebaker, author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, will give a live talk with Q & A by the same title, for Maurin Academy patrons and for registrants on Eventbrite. Patreon: patreon.com/maurinacademy We think you’ll find some answers to how we got to the point … Read more
Tomorrow! “Diagnosing Social Pathologies” with Dr. Fred Neuhouser
Tomorrow–be there for the live event with Q & A by being a Maurin Academy patron or joining through Eventbrite. “Can Societies Fall Ill? Diagnosing Social Pathology” with Dr Fred Neuhouser, tomorrow, Feb. 22. Patreon: https://patreon.com/maurinacademy Be a patron of our speaker series and the TMA, and help us keep our sanity and yours!
The Regenerative Reader: Vol. 2, Issue 5: Fall/Winter 2024/25
If you like what we’re doing and would like us to continue to develop classes and groups aimed at “stopping environmental harm by changing our social relations,” please consider a year end gift to the Maurin Academy! We’re experimenting with different ways to convey the Regenerative Reader, and we landed on creating a webpage with … Read more
Upcoming Maurin Academy Session: “Can Societies Fall Ill? Diagnosing Social Pathology with Frederick Neuhouser”
Saturday, February 22 at 12 P.M. US Central Time, live on Zoom, join special guest, Frederick Neuhouser in discussing his latest book, Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim. From the jacket: Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In … Read more
Season 3, Episode 27: Gazing Into the Abyss of Deep Pluralism (w/ Benjamin Studebaker)
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.
What we are Reading this Fall
Some New World Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age By: Peter Harrison Capital Hates Everyone Fascism or Revolution By: Maurizio Lazzarato The Worlds of Public Health Anthropological Excursions 1st Edition By: Didier Fassin Silent Coup How Corporations Overthrew Democracy By: Claire Provost, Matt Kennard The Need for Roots By: Simone Weil On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy A Theological Vision … Read more
Incarnation and the Environment, with Author Jordan Daniel Wood
Jordan Daniel Wood honored us with two visits to the Maurin Academy’s monthly Communio reading group recently. This is just a short segment of a fascinating conversation with Dr. Wood, who is the author of The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus the Confessor. To get updated on upcoming Communio, other reading … Read more