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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
Published! The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars
by Laurie M Johnson My latest book has been published by Wipf & Stock. My hope is that this book will help readers gain perspective on the political/culture wars that hold our societies back. While the focus is on the US and the causes of its economic, cultural, political and religious divisions, the information and … Read more
Laurie Johnson Interviewed on the Simpleton Podcast
Laurie discusses her book The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars with Clark, especially on the issue of poverty.
Hillbilly Elegy Book Club!
Hillbilly Elegy has become an important part of our public discourse, so Dr. Laurie Johnson 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 the Maurin Academy’s Political Philosophy YouTube channel and responding to them in the next video.
Season 3, Episode 20: Dustbowl Danse Macabre
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 Dustbowl Diatribes and … Read more
The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars–Now Out in Paperback and Kindle Editions
By Laurie M. Johnson My latest book has been published by Wipf & Stock! My hope is that this book will help readers gain perspective on the political/culture wars that hold our societies back. While the focus is on the US and the causes of its economic, cultural, political and religious divisions, the information and … Read more