The Two Cities Podcast

Thomas Storck shares his insights on the Church's teaching on the Just Price and Just Wages. "To sell something more dearly than it is worth, or buy it more cheaply, in itself is unjust and illicit."

"To defraud any one of wages that are his due is a great crime which cries to the avenging anger of Heaven." - Leo XIII (Rerum Novarum)

Thomas Stock has been writing on economics, Catholic social teaching, Catholic culture and related topics since the 1980s. He is the author, editor or translator of eleven previous books, and is a contributing editor of New Oxford Review and a member of The Chesterton Review. He is the author of From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond: The Long, Jagged Trail to a Postmodern Void and Economics: An Alternative Introduction.

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Following the famous “five stages of grief” model developed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, I present a typology of psychological responses to ‘The Crisis’ in both the temporal and spiritual spheres.

With thanks to John Lane.

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An exclusive first interview with the author of Inferno: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth, Augustine Virgil

I am joined by Augustine Virgil (Fourth Eclogue Substack - https://goodvirgil.substack.com/) for a first look at his new book on the modern media hellscape, published by Stabat Mater Press.

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We explore the outer rings of the infernal landscape; the quasi liturgical and religious nature of false political movements; the discordian officially-approved conspiracy sphre; the Neo-Nietzschean ‘land of sun and steel’; and the gnostic spheres of the light magicians and the perfecti. 

LA COMMEDIA MODERNA is a full length trilogy that is to be published by independent Traditional Catholic publisher Stabat Mater Press, with the INFERNO released on the 8th of December 2025, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It will then be followed by the two sequels: PURGATORIO and PARADISO.

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A major feature of contemporary politics, media and culture is the humiliation ritual. Will Tucker and I explore Aristotle's writings on Tyranny and its means of preservation, including humiliation of the subjects.
Mr Tucker presents his research on the occult metaphysics of ritual humiliation; Noahidism as 'decapitation through humiliation'; Nicholas de Cusa's concept of "learned ignorance" and the relations with kenotic theology, personalism and kabbalah. Will Tucker traces the humiliation ritual as a heterodox form of esoteric mystagogy to condition the intellect and will towards "divine nothingness."

Mr Tucker's substack: https://analogia.substack.com/

The Analogia Entis channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analogiaentis

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The recording of a talk I gave in London for a study day on the institution of the Feast of Christ the King by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925).

It is an extended elaboration of the essay advocating a positive vision and strategy for the laity in realising the Kingship of Christ over societies today.

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