The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies

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. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Maurin Academy Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-maurin-academy-311669 Political Philosophy Podcast: https://political-phil

Spencer and Laurie interview Catholic Worker and Sociology professor Harry Murray, who is also doing the “Harry Murray Sessions” for the Maurin Academy. The next Harry Murray session, this one on Nikolai Berdyaev’s personalism and Christian existentialism, will be on December 16, 2024. To find out more about this and other classes from the Maurin Academy, visi

Spencer and special guest Caleb Owens interview Laurie Johnson about her newly published book, The Gap in God’s Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars. For more information about this book and where to buy it, as well as information about a series of talks she’ll give on themes from the book, check out: https://pmaurin.org/2024/11/02/the-gap-in-gods-country-them

Spencer and Laurie visit with Chris Cutrone, leading founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the author of a new book published this year by Sublation Media. Here’s a link to Cutrone’s latest book, Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party, 2006-2024, Sublation Media, 2024. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacad

Spencer and Laurie talk to Catholic Worker Renée Roden about her experiences in the Catholic Worker movement and what she is doing now as she transitions to a new community. She also discusses the upcoming Peter Maurin Conference in Chicago: Sept. https://www.stgregoryhall.org/maurin.html Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy Maurin Academy Even

Alfredo Poggi talks to Spencer and Laurie about his new book Magical Realism, Latin America, and the Appearance of Precritical Theory, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Poggi makes the bold argument for taking Marian visions at face value and seeing them as a powerful antidote to ideology. Poggi uses Latin American literary approach of magical realism to reveal a precritic

What happens when even basic business can’t be effectively done? How did we get here? Ever thought you were doing someone a favor and they took it as an insult, or worse? Spencer and Laurie digest more of John Rao’s thoughts from various books and try to settle their argument from the last episode. Along the way, they tell some stories about cooperation failures and

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:

Dr. John Rao drops in to tell Laurie and Spencer about Traditionalism, The Roman School, Dorothy Day’s Catholicism, and his critique of Emmanuel Mounier’s brand of Personalism. You can find his writings here: http://jcrao.freeshell.org/, and his work with The Roman Forum here: http://www.romanforum.org/

Co-Founder of the Permaculture movement, David Holmgren, talks to Spencer and Laurie about his analysis and predictions in his book Future Scenarios, his assessment that we are still in the “Brown Tech” energy descent scenario, and the implications for society moving forward. Holmgren Design: https://holmgren.com.au Online Writing: https://holmgren.com.au/pe