Season 3, Ep. 28: David McKerracher on Timenergy and the Multi-Layered Crises That Confront Us
Spencer and Laurie talk to Dave McKerracher of Theory Underground about his book, Timenergy, and also his plans for farming.
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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
Localism, Distributism and Libertarianism Aren’t Enough
Laurie’s latest Political Philosophy video. Political Philosophy is a Maurin Academy channel and podcast.
Maurin Academy Upcoming Short Series on Wendell Berry’s, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
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
September Political Philosophy Monthly Chat with Dr. Laurie M. Johnson
Our Political Philosophy Month Chat is BACK! This month Laurie will be discussing some of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the origins of inequality. His Discourse on the Origins of Inequality. Learn about how his ideas fit in the trajectory of Western political thought! Register on Eventbrite or join us on Patreon!
Upcoming Maurin Academy Series with Dr. Laurie M. Johnson
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
June Political Philosophy Chat: Thomas Hobbes
Thursday, June 1 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom, join Laurie for this month’s Political Philosophy Chat on Thomas Hobbes. She will be discussing the influence of Thomas Hobbes’s social contract theory on future liberal developments. Check out her video for more information! Register by supporting us on Patreon or on our Eventbrite … Read more
Tonight: Political Philosophy monthly talk: Aquinas and the Market
Laurie will be live on zoom tonight at 7 p.m. US Central Time to discuss a bit about Aquinas and natural law and then to focus on his views on property. She’ll compare his views on private property with the neoliberal view as exemplified by Milton Friedman. To that end, part of the session she’ll be reading a section from the draft of the book she’s currently writing. The chapter is “Ideological Strong-Arming” and she spends some time discussing how Friedman helped set up the conditions for what we now call “capitalist realism.”
Dustbowl Diatribes Season 2, Ep. 7: Urban Agriculture Project Postmortem, An Interview with Dan Krull
Spencer and Laurie interview Dan Krull about the closure of an innercity agricultural initiative. We discuss the ins and outs of the project, some reasons why it “failed”, and the limits (or lack thereof) of education as a means of improving society. Please fill out this form to be put on the email list for future Maurin … Read more
First Maurin Academy Series of 2023: Laudato Si’
This short series on March 23 and 30, 2023, will cover the major concepts of Laudato Si (Praise Be to You: On the Care of Our Common Home), the encyclical by Pope Francis on the state of our environment and our responsibility toward it. Dr. Laurie M Johnson is a Co-Founder of the Maurin Academy. … Read more