The Dissenter · 2026-07-09 · 82 min · 15,047 words

#1277 Matthew McManus: The Right Wants You Stupid, and Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Marxism

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined for a second time by Dr. Matthew McManus. Last time we talked about his book, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, and I will be leaving a link to that in the description of this interview. And today we're going to talk about

His pieces, uh, The Right Wants You Stupid, which was published on liberal currents, and Steven Pinker doesn't know anything about Marxism, which was published on current affairs. So Dr. McMenus, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. Yeah, absolutely.

Uh and for those who are listening, um obviously I'm can't chair for Canada in the World Cup, but It's also nice to see that uh Portugal's been doing pretty well. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, let's see how it goes. I mean, I I think that uh France and Argentina uh are doing better than Portugal, at least uh for for the most part, but yeah, let's see.

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