Antifascist Dad Podcast24 Nov 2025

SPECIAL EPISODE: Matthew Interviewed by Cory Johnston at Skeptical Leftist

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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