Catholics, the "New Right", & Politics in 2023: Dr. Laurie Johnson INTERVIEW | The Simpleton Podcast

Dr. Laurie Johnson, Professor of Political Philosophy and co-founder of the Maurin Institute, sits down with Clark for this episode of The Simpleton Podcast.

Also in this episode:
• Are liberalism and Christianity compatible?
• Being Catholic in academia
• Should we be trying to reinvent society?
• Catholic Integralists & Distributists
• Dr. Laurie's Catholic conversion

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To learn more about Dr. Laurie and/or the Maurin Institute, search "Dr. Laurie Johnson" on YouTube or go to https://pmaurin.org/

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Chapters:

0:00 Start
0:41 Signpost
1:01 Dr. Laurie's Catholic conversion
11:21 Being Catholic at a state university
14:44 Going into academia in 2023
18:34 Dr. Laurie's podcast
19:14 Are liberalism and Christianity compatible?
28:33 The New Right & politics in 2023
40:52 Maurin Academy, the JPII Catholic Worker, & their goals
51:16 What quality of life do we have, and will we have?
1:00:37 Should we be trying to reinvent society?
1:08:01 Catholic Integralists & Distributists
1:19:12 The destructiveness of ideological obsession
1:23:50 The usefulness of outside ideologies

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