Episode 10 - Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whiskey

Prager U gets the recent history of socialism very wrong. Ben is joined by Matt McManus to talk about the relationship between Marxism and philosophical liberalism and then by Matthew Sitman (and David Griscom) to talk about conservatism, country music, and why those are two very different subjects.Here's Matt McManus' latest article in Jacobin:https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/karl-marx-liberalism-rights-igor-shoikhedbrod-review...and Matthew Sitman's country music essay in Dissent:https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/e-pluribus-country