About this episode
I'm having my good friend and frequent collaborator Matt McManus on the show to explore where we agree and where we might disagree on how the Left should approach the Ukraine war. You can check out several articles I've written to see what I think, e.g.:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-the-cuban-missile-crisis-can-teach-the-us-about-how-to-deal-with-russia-and-ukraine
https://www.thedailybeast.com/noam-chomsky-is-right-us-should-work-to-negotiate-an-end-to-the-war-in-ukraine
https://jacobin.com/2022/07/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-ukraine-russia-putin
https://jacobin.com/2022/04/antiwar-internationalists-isolationists-eugene-debs-russia-ukraine
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/ukraine-and-the-specter-of-christopher-hitchens
Matt mentions some of his thinking on this in his review of Michael Millerman's Dugin book:
https://merionwest.com/2022/04/13/review-michael-millermans-beginning-with-heidegger-strauss-rorty-derrida-dugin-and-the-philosophical-constitution-of-the-political/
I'm not sure what all the nuances of Matt's position are, but my reason for thinking we might see this differently is primarily this tweet:
https://twitter.com/mattpolprof/status/1579870780137279488
If you read the rest of the thread, there's enough nuance there that I'm not sure we actually disagree on any of this but I am curious and since I've never had a bad conversation with Matt I figured it would be both more pleasant and informative to have an actual conversation about this than to try to hash it out on Twitter. If we get calls, we'll take them at the end.
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