Mateus, João and Mitch (guest interviewer) talk with Matthew McManus (Spelman College) about his "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" (Zer0 Books, 2020). In it, we address the transformations conservative and reactionary ideologies have suffered in the digital age, our post-modern condition, and the revolutionary character of Capitalism.

Mateus and João interview Professor David Lay Williams from DePaul University (USA) to talk about his book, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton University Press, 2024). Drawing from great thinkers of the Western Canon, David shows how inequality has always been considered a keen political problem in the West - until the rise of Capitalism and, with it, the hopes that an affluent world would cope with being unequal.

In this interview, Mateus interviews Jonathan Rose, renowned Historian, Professor of History, Director of the Graduate Program in Book History at Drew University, and the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. We discuss his book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Yale University Press (2021, 3ed), the importance of Liberal Education for the emancipation of those that come from below, and the dangers of the current decline in reading rates!