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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 7h

Good chatting about liberal socialism and G.A Cohen with Varn m.youtube.com/watch?v=rDtw...

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Synthesizing Marx and Rawls with Matt McManus

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 7h

Dont see a ton of people talk about this book but its very good

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 17h

Sure, but Buchanan's book combines a lot of the major themes: civilizational decline, culture war anomie, historical revisionism, demographic anxiety etc.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah that would have been a good one also, but I think Buchanan gets you most of that and a lot more if you only have 20 books

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 18h

So true Kevin and its sad that thats so.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 18h

Oh yes its terrible. I remember rightists saying Evola was their Marcuse and thinking "boy is that telling how much lower your standards for critical intellectuals is."

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah I was going to put Spengler over Evola but I think the latter better embodies the ethos

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 19h

Obviously so much missing, but this would get people up to date with trends past and present.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 19h

Here is a rough list for 20 books people should read to understand the modern intellectual right across its own internal spectrum

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 19h

That's partially what I mean about why I'm not sure he was the right guy for this. I worry Fareed is going to go "everything is more or less fine" while Deneen's pitch will be "elites from both parties have failed you!" and the latter will resonate.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 19h

Not who I would have chosen to defend liberalism but should be interesting

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's something enormously ironic in all the conspiracy theories floating around about the US funding and proppping up left wing and socialist politicians in Latin America...

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are always plenty of people who would rather let 100 people starve than see 1 person get food at their expense who they dont think deserved it.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I beat my own record for words written in a day and am feeling pretty good about that.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The deepest irony is that Spencer Pratt has not had a job in his adult life.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, some people do all the work while others reap all the rewards. That would never happen under capitalism.

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WIZARDD HAT @wizard-hat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Meanwhile, at your capitalist corporate job, you work really hard and generate extra production and money for the company, and they give that extra money to shareholders instead of you, who actually did the work. Must be socialism!

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chappell roan atkinson @turpywurpy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Socialism is the high-school group project. Mostly your fellow students will do their part because it needs to get done and you all want to get good grades. Your mate doesn't do a ton but who cares? You've all been there from time to time and besides his nan just died, so you cut him some slack 🤷

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cateatdog @cateatdog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

he literally named one of his kids Gunner

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i thought they WANTED the teachers to have guns

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Its astonishing how much of American conservatism boils down to the vague but intense paranoia that somehow someone somewhere is getting something they dont deserve at your expense

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Officially registered and booked for HM 2026

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some personal news: I'm going to be leaving Vox after 12 years (!!) to start not one, but two new projects! The details are still under wraps, but I can tell you that I'll still be writing about the crisis of democracy, the far-right, and liberalism's future. Looking forward to sharing more soon!

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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Matt McManus discusses his essay in Jabobin magazine entitled "Utopia Is a Promise Worth Fighting For." This was a review of the short book "Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope" by David Albertson and Jason Blakely. youtu.be/rOCTquOEjz8?...

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Matt McManus on the Need for Utopia

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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Matt McManus on the Need for Utopia

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Carney gets the Nobel peace prize before Trump, 100% he's gonna amp up threatening to invade Canada. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

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Mark Carney set to snatch Nobel Peace Prize from Trump

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Rage of Edmund Burke comes close

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Rage of Edmund Butke comes close

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The history of political thought is replete with contempt for these sycophantic power-seekers. Yet I know of no systematic examination of it. I wonder if someone has constructed a tradition of thought about the toady? Their apparent ever-presence in political history is a regularity worth comment.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump thinks wind turbines cause some sort of hearing cancer and just learned how to spell the word dumb.

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is obviously some sort of performative lying / syophancy, but historians who have actually looked into this found some the more intelligent presidents were not very good - Nixon, Hoover, Carter ...

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gabestur.bsky.social @gabestur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Then give him one. The dementia tests aren't swaying me.

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Ferengi Liaison to Buck-A-Slice @sovietcola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"No actually we're not dumb, we're very smart, and have a number to prove it" is so tiresome

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

W was dumb as a stump but unless I blocked something out - which is admittedly possible - we didn't have this kind of relentless, shameless attempt to convince us he was actually a genius. Menken was an optimist.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You have to be totally ignorant of presidential history to make this claim. Teddy Roosevelt (who read a book a day) and Thomas Jefferson (who designed Monticello and UVa and was fluent in French) were clearly far better educated and more intelligent.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is something so vulgar about the kind of conservative who came from a modest background, but strives to climb the same social hierarchies that once disadvantaged him by endlessly and shamelessly flattering those he now insists are our social betters.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I discuss the merits and demerits of utopian theorizing on Sublation media youtu.be/rOCTquOEjz8?...

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Matt McManus on the Need for Utopia

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why "The Blueprint" is worth a read!

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Omega Candrad @ocandrad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is probably my biggest gripe with the more left-wing crowd. They either say we just do a repeat of the Soviet Union but without the bad stuff apparently or they say that the anarchist commune that you stayed on that one time is totally perfect model for large societal governance.

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