Matt McManus, Author at Areo

Politics

Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA - NOVEMBER 2, 2013: Radcliffe Quad undergrad housing at Harvard University in Fall in Cambridge, MA, USA on November 2, 2013.

The irritable conservative college memoir, which argues that tertiary education is ruining the US, is a tired minor genre to which everyone from William F. Buckley Jr. to Dinesh D’Souza…

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6 min

The Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.—Robert Frost Liberals have long prided themselves on their pragmatism and moderation. While radical movements on…

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7 min

Nathan Robinson’s Response to the Right

There is a natural instinct in unthinking people—who, tolerant of the burdens that life lays on them, and unwilling to lodge blame where they seek no remedy, seek fulfilment in…

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22 min

The Enlightenment Paradigm: A Response to Yoram Hazony’s “Conservatism: A Rediscovery”

Introduction by Matt McManus He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able…

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8 min

Surviving Dave Rubin’s “Don’t Burn This Country”

January 15th, 2019 was the night I got wasted on a livestream downing shots of Patron. It was also the time I accidentally disclosed my private, personal, email address to…

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9 min

Practical Politics: Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht’s Bigger Than Bernie

When we comment on a political movement, we should avoid depicting it either as destined for victory—a noble upswelling of the common people against the forces of evil—or as destined…

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11 min

Politics

The Politics of Human Differences

Since their turn towards post-structuralism in the 1960s, left-wing theorists have focused almost exclusively on the philosophical and political implications of human differences. They have typically rejected moral universalism, which…

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7 min

Politics

Seeing Hitchens Clearly: A Review of Ben Burgis’ Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters

The term “the American Left” is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And…

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12 min

“The Conservative Sensibility” by George F. Will. Review.

George F. Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (2019) is a gigantic book that makes a case for why American conservatives should commit to defending right-wing liberalism. It is also intended to…

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10 min

Is Liberalism Genocidal, Racist and Elitist?: A Reply to Domenico Losurdo’s Counter-History

Liberalism can refer to many things: a philosophy, a disposition, an educational style—even a brand. But it is primarily thought of as a political doctrine originating in the seventeenth century,…

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9 min

Politics

“The Authoritarian Moment” by Ben Shapiro. Review

We must firmly reject the notion that speech is violence. Dissent isn’t violence. Disagreement isn’t harm. That’s because politics isn’t an identity; it isn’t a denial of someone’s identity to…

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7 min

Politics

Robert Reich’s “The System: How We Rigged It, How We Fix It”

Robert Reich, a lifelong Democrat, served in the Carter, Ford, Clinton and Obama administrations, and his views have moved progressively leftwards over time: he endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in…

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10 min

Philosophy

Heidegger’s Philosophy and Fascism

Heidegger was one of the intellectual heroes of my youth. Although his prose was infuriatingly convoluted, there was something electrifying about the mysteries the book promised to answer: What is…

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8 min

Politics

The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari is a man searching for something bigger than himself to believe in. When he was very young, his family, leery of the Shia fundamentalism of their native Iran,…

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8 min

Politics

What Kinds of Liberal Freedoms Should Democratic Socialists Support?

One of the biggest controversies on the contemporary left today concerns the relationship between leftism and liberalism. People often use the word liberalism to refer to a location on the…

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9 min

John Stuart Mill, Socialist?

In those days, I was a democrat, but not the least … a socialist… [later], our ideal of ultimate improvement went far beyond democracy, and … would class us decidedly…

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8 min

Areo Magazine

“The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” by Charlie Kirk

Trumpism has always been more interesting as a phenomenon than as an ideology. This is in part because, as even some of his supporters have conceded, Trump himself is a…

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Matt McManus

Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”

The Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”

Nathan Robinson’s Response to the Right

The Enlightenment Paradigm: A Response to Yoram Hazony’s “Conservatism: A Rediscovery”

Surviving Dave Rubin’s “Don’t Burn This Country”

Practical Politics: Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht’s Bigger Than Bernie

The Politics of Human Differences

Seeing Hitchens Clearly: A Review of Ben Burgis’ Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters

“The Conservative Sensibility” by George F. Will. Review.

Is Liberalism Genocidal, Racist and Elitist?: A Reply to Domenico Losurdo’s Counter-History

“The Authoritarian Moment” by Ben Shapiro. Review

Robert Reich’s “The System: How We Rigged It, How We Fix It”

Heidegger’s Philosophy and Fascism

The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari

What Kinds of Liberal Freedoms Should Democratic Socialists Support?

John Stuart Mill, Socialist?

“The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” by Charlie Kirk

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