In late 2022 we got together with Jakob Hanschu, Bryant Macfarlane, and Laurie Johnson and formed The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to alternative education. The Academy provides free content through our Dustbowl Diatribes podcast and Dr. Johnson’s Political Philosophy Channel. We additionally offer further content through Patreon where people can engage live and recorded learning sessions that will help them get in touch with us and those who want to engage in the quest for useful knowledge.

We’re inspired by Peter Maurin’s vision, which called for “agronomic universities” and classes and discussion forums “for the clarification of thought.” These discussions aim at coming to grips with the multi-valent crises afflicting the post-Christian West: whether ecological, political, economic, psycho-social, or spiritual.

We are now beginning to hold more classes and reading groups. Plans include an ongoing reading group on Marx’s economic theory and a Communio theology reading group to start later in the year, as well as classes on Laudato Si (the papal encyclical on the environment), the influence of accelerating technology on the way we think and behave, and the ideas of German priest Romano Guardini.