Here’s our Summer 2025 News!
If you like what we do, please subscribe to our blog feed (see subscription button to the right), and become a patron on Patreon or support our mission with a special donation. You can also purchase an “All Access Pass” by purchasing one year’s worth of live and recorded access here. Please email us at maurinacademy@gmail.com if you have questions about any of these methods of supporting us!
Our Patreon Tiers Explained:
The Maurin Academy offers three tiers on Patreon, which is our platform for providing our educational content. We thought we’d explain them briefly here. You can go The Maurin Academy Patreon to join!
At the first tier (Trainee — $1 per month) patrons get access in one convenient place to our public content such as our Dustbowl Diatribes, Political Philosophy and Midnight Lands podcasts, plus our newsletter. Trainees, importantly, also get access to our live and recorded reading group sessions (Jakob Hanschu’s group, Laurie’s Great Books reading group, and monthly patron check-ins. At $12 per year, that’s quite a bit!
At the second tier (Salt of the Earth — $5 per month) patrons get everything at the Trainee level and also ALL our other content (classes, speaker series, reading groups) in recorded format. So at $60 per year, that’s quite a deal. Along with our recorded back-catalog, that’s a lot of university level education for the price of a cup of coffee each month!
At the third tier (Worker-Scholar — $10 per month) patrons get everything at the Trainee and Salt of the Earth levels, plus LIVE access to all our classes, speakers, reading groups, etc. Basically this is an all-access pass, and if you value live interaction, being able to ask questions and dialogue at least part of the time, this tier is for you. At $120 per year, or the cost of (not even quite) one fast-food meal a month, you get a live, interactive educational experience with instructors, group leaders and other patrons–that’s pretty rare!
At the fourth tier (Benefactor — $25 per month) patrons receive all the benefits of the Worker-Scholar level. In addition to our thanks for believing in our work, after six months of vital support, Benefactors will receive a signed copy of Laurie’s latest book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars, or another book we have covered or will cover in the calendar year. We will check with each benefactor to match their wishes as much as possible. After 12 months of support, Benefactors will receive an item of Maurin Academy swag, most likely a mug:) The main benefit of the Benefactor levels is our heartfelt gratitude for being able to help us continue our mission.
At the Maurin Academy we keep the cost of access low because we are a non-profit organization whose mission is public education on issues surrounding environment, politics/economics, and religion (and most importantly, how they interact). We are inspired by Peter Maurin’s vision of an “agronomic university”– a school for all people who want to learn more about why we are in the relative mess we’re in on all counts, and how we might cope with it, or even do something about it.