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Season 4, Episode 12,: Chris Smaje on How and Why Communities Ain’t Publics Spencer and Laurie interview Chris Smaje, author of (most recently) Finding Lights in a Dark Age.... https://pmaurin.org/2026/06/03/season-4-episode-12-chris-smaje-on-how-and-why-communities-aint-publics/
Season 4, Episode 11: Is Liberal Nationalism Acceptable?
Spencer and Laurie discuss Isaiah Berlin’s liberal nationalism and ask whether liberalism can be held in balance with nationalism, and even whether this uncomfortable mix is inevitable. Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of the Maurin Academy, and can be found on almost all podcast platforms! https://pmaurin.org Maurin Academy Patreon:…
Preparing the Ground for Spring: Part 2
In this essay, JPII Farm Worker Scholar Natalie Finn reflects on her work at the farm and shows appreciation for its many animals. Check it out:Â LINK TO POST
Summer Seminar on "Creation, Food and Agriculture," Coming in June
Starting Monday, June 1 and meeting for five consecutive Mondays, Laurie Johnson will take participants through some of the more important concepts related to food and agriculture through the lens of Christianity. This class will focus on our connection with the land, our moral obligations to the land and the life that occupies it and how thinking about agriculture and food differently can…
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Research Note: Peter Maurin’s Port of Entry Record
As a part of her ongoing research on Peter Maurin, Dr. Laurie Johnson shares this brief note on Maurin’s port of entry into the United States. View on Substack: LINK TO POST
Preparing the Ground for Spring: Part 1
In this essay, JPII Farm Worker Scholar Natalie Finn discusses some of the practical work involved with small-scale, regenerative agriculture and connects this to broader philosophical themes. Check it out: LINK TO POST
Upcoming Guest Lecture: "PĂ©guy for the Present"
Lecture Title: “Péguy for the Present” Details: Thursday, April 9, 2026 @7:00 PM CST. Lecture Blurb: The rise of Christian nationalism has lent new urgency to longstanding questions about how politics and religion are meant to relate. For the French Catholic socialist Charles Péguy (1873-1914), their interaction is the fulcrum of history, a dynamic confrontation that creates and gives meaning…
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Season 4, Episode 7: Charles Coulombe on the Perils of Sealing Political Pacts & the Primacy of Evangelization
Spencer and Laurie talk to Charles Coulombe, a monarchist and author of multiple books, including The Compleat Monarchist. His views on the intellectual and spiritual milieux leading up to the emergence of the Catholic Worker movement, as well as his views on American history, and what’s wrong and right with American Catholicism, offer a unique look into attempts to recover and adapt an old right…
Hamnet Teaches What Love Looks Like
In this reflection on the film Hamnet, Maurin Academy co-founder Dr. Laurie Johnson asks what a depiction of Shakespeare’s family life teach us about the loving balance between family and extraordinary artistic achievement. Check it out now: LINK TO SUBSTACK
What did Peter Maurin Want?
In this essay from Maurin Academy instructor Christopher May, Peter Maurin’s vision of a better world is explored. Check it out now: LINK TO SUBSTACK
Season 4, Episode 6: Quid est Dignum et Iustum in a Wilderness of Mirrors?
Dustbowl Diatribes and Political Philosophy are podcasts of the Maurin Academy, and can be found on almost all podcast platforms! https://pmaurin.org Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy John Paul II Catholic Worker Farm: https://jpiicatholicworkerfarm.com Follow the Maurin Academy and the JPII Farm on Instagram for notifications about upcoming events.
What We're Reading - January 2026
Check out what The Maurin Academy founders and instructors are reading this month! The Tyranny of the Banal: On the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology by David Deane “Totalitarianism — the forcing of people through the laws of a State to live in ways in opposition to their beliefs — may not be a deviation from the best principles of modern liberal democracy, it may, rather, proceed inexorably…
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Antimodern Progress? February 2026 Course on Jacques Maritain
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Great Books Group's Next Read: Paul Kingsnorth, "Against the Machine."
The Great Books Reading Group will take on Paul Kingsnorth’s book Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity starting on the first Thursday of February, the 5th, 7-8:30 p.m. US Central Time, on our Patreon platform at the Trainee ($1) level or above, and we invite you to join us! Laurie Johnson and Kent Shultz will take turns leading the discussion. Reading is encouraged, but not…
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We will soon be announcing our early Spring classes on our website, including one on Jacques Maritain and Anti-Modern Progress, and one on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (Bare Life), on how modern states strip individuals of political rights, reducing them to "bare life." For now, I'd like to ask, for those of you who can help us, will you help us by either becoming a paid follower of the Academy on Patreon, and/or by giving a one time tax-deductible gift before December 31 to help us keep going in 2026. Your support and encouragement, no matter whether you can help us financially or not, is deeply appreciated. pmaurin.org
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