Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson has written for many outlets and is the author of 'How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment' (Pitchstone Publishing, 2023)

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Candace Owens Is Dangerously Misinformed about Vaccines

Ever wonder why a man that builds computers, both predicted the pandemic two months before it happened, is suddenly featured on the news every day instilling fear into hearts of Americans, and is now demanding that nothing be reopened until vaccines are mandated?

Matt Johnson

20 Apr 2020 · 8 min read

Will There Be a New Cold War with China? A Reply to Niall Ferguson

Americans have suddenly grown fearful of the growth of Chinese power.

Matt Johnson

8 Apr 2020 · 9 min read

Christopher Hitchens, Anti-Identitarian

Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether.

Matt Johnson

12 Mar 2020 · 8 min read

Holbrooke and the 68ers

Our Man tells a tidier story than The Unwinding because it focusses on one man, and the analogy between Holbrooke and the country he served holds up remarkably well throughout the book.

Matt Johnson

11 Feb 2020 · 28 min read

The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright

Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.

Matt Johnson

25 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational plute drive”?

Matt Johnson

15 Nov 2019 · 10 min read

Tyranny's Mouthpiece

In other words, Syrian government propaganda is almost perfectly aligned with the arguments Blumenthal and Khalek have been making for years.

Matt Johnson

26 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

The Hell of Good Intentions—A Review

Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks.

Matt Johnson

6 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

Whither Léon Blum?—Paul Berman's Misplaced Faith in Bernie Sanders

Jeremy Corbyn’s record of praising terrorist organizations and celebrating artwork that looks like it was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to the long list of condemnations of Labour issued by Jewish organizations in the UK.

Matt Johnson

3 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism

Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.

Matt Johnson

27 Feb 2019 · 9 min read

Is Religious Belief in Decline?

“Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason.

Matt Johnson

9 Jan 2019 · 10 min read

Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump

No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago.

Matt Johnson

9 Dec 2018 · 15 min read

The Peculiar Opacity of Jordan Peterson's Religious Views

If you’ve ever heard Peterson discuss the subject or read either of his books, the answers he provided in Vancouver will not surprise you.

Matt Johnson

23 Jul 2018 · 11 min read