Just a coupla antifascist Canadian dads having a chat about stuff.
In this special crossover episode, I join Cory Johnston of the Skeptical Leftist podcast for a conversation about cult dynamics, fascism, antifascist parenting, masculinity, and how to support kids with empathy in a collapsing world.
We talk about parenting in a political emergency, how to avoid overwhelming kids with adult anxieties, and how to build trust-based conversations about power, policing, misinformation, and existential fear. We get into masculinity, emotional repression, the unpaid labor of women, the politics of care, and how becoming a co-parent radicalized me more deeply than any book ever could.
We also spend time on atheist/religious alliances, liberation theology, body-image capitalism, surviving neoliberal time-pressure, and how to nurture political imagination without drowning in guilt or fatalism.
Our interview on YouTube.
Cory's Linktree.
My book to preorder.
Chapters
- (00:00:07) - The Skeptical Leftist Podcast
- (00:01:07) - Matthew's Short Bio Rant
- (00:05:03) - On Parenting and the Left
- (00:10:13) - What is Anti-Fascism?
- (00:24:37) - Anti-Fascism & Conspirituality
- (00:29:59) - Democracy on Liberation theology
- (00:41:39) - On Becoming a Parent
- (00:49:04) - What Is Healthy Masculinity?
- (00:59:59) - How Do You Raise Your Kids With Empathetic Awareness?
- (01:08:51) - Emotional maturity and the police
- (01:19:45) - White Privilege and the Problem of Personal Responsibility
- (01:25:32) - Time Management
- (01:33:17) - Where Can People Find Antifascist Dad?
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