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Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on other platforms The best of New Polity delivered to your door four times a year. Subscribe now and get 30% off all back issues https://newpolity.com/magazine Are we drowning in too much city plans? Or do we just have bad plans? Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman argue that good city planning can solve many of our issues. Although developers and "experts" have caused weird and unsustainable developments, they discuss how local cities can retake planning their city. On the docket: imperial zoning laws, detached property owners, transient residencies, automobiles (again), minimum parking laws, and encouraging organic area planning.

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on other platforms Breezy paradisal reading delivered to your door 4 times a year. Subscribe to New Polity Magazine today and get 30% off all back issues. Should we flee to the Land or revitalize the City? Jacob Hyman and Nathan Bird discuss how the battle between land and city is a false dichotomy. Each is dependent on the other and both are essential to renewal. They also discuss how the modern city has divorced these ways of life: making the land a commodity to extract resources and the modern city a scattered suburban sprawl. Also, the financial cost of these poorly planned cities has led to urban decay and flight to newer cities. But, there is a plan that the Church has for making cities beautiful and connecting with the land. Join the conversation on our Discord.

Cars have made us slow, anxious, and separated from each other. They discuss the negative impacts of car culture on society and how it affects housing, work, community, and women's lives. Living in a car-centered world can make people feel powerless and impotent. Exploring the parallels between nuclear weapons and cars, emphasizing the potential for destruction. The physical impact of cars on cities, biased transportation planning, challenges in reworking infrastructure, and implications of car size and contraception teaching are discussed. Delving into individualism and societal implications, exploring private property, communal living, and the importance of community without cars.

This podcast explores how cars have reshaped cities, discussing topics such as the impact of cars on human life, the creation of the national highway network, the development of suburbs, and the influence of cars on urban planning and community dynamics. It also touches on the expansion of Catholicism in suburban America and the challenges faced by intergenerational families in the suburbs. Join the hosts for an engaging conversation on the car-centered society.

Engineers Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman discuss the nature of the city, exploring topics such as the rivalry between farm and city, building cities in America, and improving our cities.

Author Andrew Willard Jones discusses the life of King St. Louis IX, highlighting his role as a lay member of the Church sanctifying the temporal order. Topics include King Louis's decision to go on crusade, his reforms after being captured, the significance of anointing in the French monarchy, forgotten peasant rights, temporary fixes for social problems, and his relationship with the Church regarding usury and spiritual power.

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on other platforms The new magazine is out now! Issue 4.2 includes essays and reviews by Andrew Willard Jones, Thomas Storck, Michael Higgins, and more. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss the highlights from New Polity Magazine 4.2, including the rise of bourgeois society by Christopher Dawson, critiques of the stock market by John Medaille, and more. Subscribe to the magazine today and get 30% off all back issues! Visit https://www.newpolity.com/magazine Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on other platforms Eric Brende is the author of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, which describes his experience of living with the Amish. Marc and Eric discuss the role of technology, the aesthetic of homesteading versus urbanism, and how to approach mechanized life. Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Or help us make more: visit https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on other platforms Jon Blevins is back with a discussion with Jacob Imam on money. Can a Catholic be wealthy? Should publicly traded companies exist? How can we enact a truly Catholic economy? Subscribe to our magazine: https://newpolity.com/magazine Watch more at newpolity.com/videos Help us make more: https://www.newpolity.com/donate

Discussing the transformation of the working class, exploring ethical challenges in infrastructure, the struggle of work culture, importance of craftsmanship, mechanization of work, working class dilemma, anxiety in modern farming, navigating industrial risks, human maintenance in tech advancements, and value of a simple, sustainable lifestyle.