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Today I’m joined by Matt McManus lecturer at University of Michigan and author The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics. Matt is an interesting thinker who is know for reading his opposition more carefully than most. I really like this about Matt, and I think we should all be reading works and having conversations with about topics on which we disagree with.

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**December 2024! Lol It's been too long regardless.

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On this episode of NeoAcademia, Danna Young and Natasha Mott discuss misinformation, censorship, free speech, memes, and more in the context of Danna's book Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation.. There was a pretty big audio issue which spurred me to start thinking about these episodes differently.

This is still under the realm of podcasts, but I may switch exclusively to YouTube in future seasons. I highly recommend watching on YouTube for the full experience with subtitles. You’ll see why.

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Geoffrey West talking science, misinformation, laws of scale, Casablanca -- and we had a blast. Geoffrey is a theoretical physicist who is questioning universal laws of Scale (also the title of his book), and he relates these laws to our everyday life which is no small feat for someone studying elementary particles. For show notes, more on Geoffrey, and the Big Nerve challenge question check out the Theory Gang newsletter.

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