Author Profile
Matt McManus
Matt McManus teaches at the University of Calgary and is the author of A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights and the forthcoming The Emergence of Postmodernity, among other books.
Biographical details as published on May 26, 2022.
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What Cormac McCarthy Saw When He Saw Evil
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As the Year Closes: Appreciating One’s Political Opponents
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Orwell: the Best Student of the Left
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Where Tolstoy Departs from Dostoevsky
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Dostoevsky’s Extremely Thoughtful Critique of the Left
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The Enduring Relevance of Philip K. Dick
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Conservatives Can’t Hide Behind the Trope of “Common Sense”
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Review: “Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel” by Domenico Losurdo
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Woke Culture Isn’t Nihilistic
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Review: Michael Millerman’s “Beginning with Heidegger: Strauss, Rorty, Derrida, Dugin and the Philosophical Constitution of the Political”
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When Conservative Christians Invoke Nietzsche
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Kant: the Greatest Liberal Philosopher?
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How to Honor the Legacy of Michael Brooks
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Our First Year without Roger Scruton
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: a Post-Modern Philosopher?
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Book Announcement: “The Emergence of Post-Modernity”
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Four Ways Freedom Has Been Understood
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Christian Conservatism and Neo-Gnosticism: A Reply to Nick Opyrchal
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Preview: “A Critical Legal Conception of Liberalism and Liberal Rights”
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Žižek and Milbank: The Monstrosity of Christ?
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On Donald Trump, the Person
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Ten Books Every Progressive Should Read to Understand the Right
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Book Review: “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns”
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Preview: “A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights”
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The Problems with Cultural Christianity
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Review: Roger Scruton’s “On Human Nature”
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What Is Unity, Anyways?
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Why the Left Can’t Agree on Anything
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How Ben Shapiro Might Consider Locke More Carefully
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A Tribute to Michael Brooks
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Review: Ronald Beiner’s “Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right”
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A Reply to Elizabeth Powers: “Woke” Activists and Deconstruction
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The Authentic Conservative vs. the Reactionary Conservative
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Understanding the Reactionary Outlook
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Why Wendy Brown Remains as Relevant as Ever
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Bhaskar Sunkara’s “The Socialist Manifesto” and Understanding Millennial Socialism
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The Irrelevance of the Intelligence Debate
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Why Thomas Piketty Thinks We Should Not Naturalize Inequality
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The Problem with Edmund Burke and Defenders of “Tradition”
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Thank you for Taking Our Thoughts on Jordan Peterson Seriously
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Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek’s Differing Approaches to Psychoanalysis
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Patrick Deneen, Henri Bergson, and Understanding Time
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Robert Nozick and the Strongest Argument for Property Rights
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Critiquing the Intellectual Dark Web: Michael Brooks’ “Against the Web”
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In Defense of My Work Critical of Jordan Peterson
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Nietzsche and Godless Post-Modernity
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Hannah Arendt’s Concept of “Impotent Bigness”
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Why Millennials Are Angry
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Slavoj Žižek, Viktor Orbán, and Understanding “Post-Truth”
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Announcing the Release of “Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson”
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From Nietzsche to Trump
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What Douglas Murray’s Book Does Well (And Where It Falters)
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Jonathan Haidt and Understanding First Nations Protesters
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How to Respond to the Global Right Phenomenon
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This Is How Bernie Wins
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The Modern University: A Reply to Nate Hochman
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Another One-Dimensional Portrayal of Jordan Peterson
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Who Was Carl Schmitt?
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Why Progressives Should Not Pin Their Hopes on Impeachment
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From Ben Shapiro to Stefan Molyneux: How the Right “Uses” Philosophy
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On Mourning for One’s Enemies: Remembering Sir Roger Scruton
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Review: “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas” by Corey Robin
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What Sohrab Ahmari Has Failed to Sense
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The Decline of the Intellectual Dark Web
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Standing By Our Criticisms of Jordan Peterson
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How ‘Ideology’ Can Hold Us Stuck in Place (Part II)
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How ‘Ideology’ Can Hold Us Stuck in Place
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Developing a Progressive Theory of Rights: A Preview of Liberalism and Liberal Rights
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A Chapter from Our Forthcoming Book Critiquing Jordan Peterson
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Why We’re Writing a Book-Length Critique of Jordan Peterson
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The Driver of the Trumpian Movement: Resentment?
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Where Did Post-Modernism Come From?
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Yoram Hazony, Russell Kirk, and the Conservative Fascination with “Order”
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Identity Politics, Coleman Hughes, and the Left: A Reply to Samuel Kronen
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Review: Axel Honneth’s “The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal”
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Answering Slavoj Žižek’s Question: Kant’s Unpopularity
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How Slavoj Žižek Can Help Us Understand Climate Change
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A Brief History of Viktor Orbán
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Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories
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The Roots of Totalitarianism
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Dostoevsky, Milton, and the Changing Definition of “Meaning”
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Being Progressive in the 2019 Canadian Election
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Review: J.A. Smith’s “Other People’s Politics: Populism to Corbynism”
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Why Christians Should Oppose Sohrab Ahmari
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The Uses and Misuses of Philosophy
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The Philosophy of Human Rights (Part II)
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The Philosophy of Human Rights
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The Four Competing Approaches to Higher Education
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Taking Science Fiction Seriously
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On Brexit: In Reply to Clive Pinder
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The Shallowness of the Intellectual Dark Web
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Preview: Human Dignity and the Law
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Social Democracy and Capitalism: A Reply To Richard Burcik
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Review: Kevin O’Rourke’s “A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop”
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A Preview of “The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism”
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Why Canada Needs to Ditch the First-Past-the-Post System
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The False Binary Between Freedom and Equality (Part II)
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The False Binary Between Freedom and Equality (Part I)
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Is the Intellectual Dark Web as “Reasonable” As It Claims?
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When David Harvey Writes on Marx
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“Classical Liberals” and the Alt-Right
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Who Was Joseph de Maistre (And Why He Matters) Part II
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Who Was Joseph de Maistre? (And Why He Matters)
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Book Preview: Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law
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Has Ben Shapiro Outgrown Being a Polemicist?
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Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek Ended Up with Much in Common
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Liberalism and Relativism (Part II)
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Liberalism and Relativism (Part I)
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The Modernity Project Can Create Confusion
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McManus: A Preview of My Forthcoming Book
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Politics and Nihilism
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The Splits in Anglo-Saxon Conservatism
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A Review of Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain
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Emotion and Conservatism: Edmund Burke vs. Jordan Peterson
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The Decline and Fall of Neoliberal Hegemony
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On Winners, Losers, and Tribalism
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The Failure of Nations: A Reply to Henry George
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Roberto Unger is the Philosopher the Left Needs
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The Intellectual Dark Web: An Analysis from the Left
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A Review of “Too Fat to Go to the Moon” by Rob McCleary
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The Case for Humanity (Part IV)
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The Case for Humanity (Part III)
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The Case for Humanity (Part II)
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The Case For Humanity (Part I)
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Book Review: “Fashionable Nonsense” 20 Years Later
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Why the Left Needs to Think About Religion (And Other Big Questions)
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The Rebirth of History: Part II
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A Reply to Henry George: “The Virtue of Nationalism”
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The Rebirth of History: Part I
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What the Left Can Learn From Søren Kierkegaard
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On Critical Legal Studies and the Limits of Critique
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A Year and a Half After Mark Fisher’s Death, His Thinking Rings True
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It’s Nostalgia That’s Driving Modern Politics
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On Antonin Scalia and the Problems With Originalism
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Jordan Peterson and God
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Standing By My Criticism of “Canada in Decay”
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Immigration, Technology, and the Winding Road to Trump
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What I Learned from Corresponding with Jordan Peterson’s Supporters
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A Critique of Ricardo Duchesne’s “Canada in Decay”
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Nietzsche Might Have Something to Say about Politics Today
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What is Post-Modernism? (Part Two)
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What is Post-Modernism? (Part One)
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All Good Things Must Come to an End: An Overview of “Why Liberalism Failed.”
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Who Was Martin Heidegger? (And Should Progressives Care?)
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What is Human Dignity? Kant Sheds Light
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What is a “Post-Modern Conservative”?
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Jordan Peterson and Conservative Critiques of Modernity
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On Bias and Truth in the Public Sphere
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Carl Schmitt, Liberalism, and Post-Modern Conservatism
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Part Two: The Argument Against Jordan Peterson
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A Critique of Jordan Peterson
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A Brief Critique of Originalist Constitutional Histories
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On Marxism, Post-Modernism, and “Cultural Marxism”