Americans are in danger of forgetting the best principle the country stood for. Defend it or lose it. youtu.be/cMBiP3YvQtg?...

I continue my series on The Federalist Papers, the bedrock ideas behind the US Constitution. Because all Americans need to re-learn what it takes to maintain their liberty. youtu.be/hlPFGE76gFY

I was recently interviewed by Jeffrey Church of the Political Theory Review podcast about The Gap in God's Country. Dr. Church zeroed in on the political theory and the politics of our current dilemma, but he also got into the overlap with religion. Listen here: podomatic.com/embed/html5/...

Here’s a four part series I just finished explaining James Madison’s attempt in Federalist 10 to provide safeguards against the development of a violent majority faction. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Zech Mickel of the Theology Mill podcast interviewed me on the various idea streams in my new book The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View On Our Culture Wars. I liked that he asked about those streams in detail: classical conservatism, Marxism, psychology and theology. youtu.be/WC-7jlL0lSw?...

Here’s the second installment political-philosophy.com/2025/03/14/j...

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I didn’t know Trump had taken over the Kennedy Center. He’s not exactly a cultural authority. Apparently the audience didn’t take kindly to JD showing up for a concert. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Benjamin Studebaker, author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, will speak to Maurin Academy patrons this evening at 7 PM US CT. Could the changes in the US government lead to a revolutionary change, or will we continue to muddle through? His answer will interest you. www.patreon/maurinacadem...

Dr Benjamin Studebaker will give a talk on Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies tomorrow March 3, 7-8:30 pm US Central Time. For how to attend: pmaurin.org/2025/02/27/l...

“The kingdom of the world is founded on greed and war—Mammon and Mars. The kingdom of God is founded on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, these two kingdoms are organized around irreconcilable values.” - @brianzahnd.bsky.social

Hear this timely lecture live or get the recording through the Maurin Academy’s Patreon or our Eventbrite. We explore why things are the way they are with lectures, reading groups and classes. www.patreon.com/maurinacadem...

“The current red/blue division is not the deepest source of our conflicts… The deepest source of all this is dislocation, justified and fueled by liberal ideology, with its spiritual devastation, and its ultimate fruit of global corporate capitalism.” wipfandstock.com/978166673740...

Watch Deacon Chris’s Spiritual Crises of Modernity, from The Maurin Academy, session 2: youtu.be/njKUyAoRDh4?...

you should read this right now. absolutely not the main point of the piece but after wading through that cormac mccarthy mess it is a pleasure to see a national magazine give space to a writer who is really able to handle and command prose like this

"What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that." - Dorothy Day Icon by Richard Ming Lai (Catholic Worker), a print sent in response to my fangirling, now with Fr Hadi in Micronesia 🌏

First time I’ve talked to a doctor on my YouTube channel and podcast. Well worth it. He gets into the root causes of our nations health problems. youtu.be/UJcQ3BEAowQ?...