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Conversations with Coleman

Marxism, Intelligence, And The Thing with Freddie DeBoer (S3 Ep.30)

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5631 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Freddie DeBoer. Freddie is an independent writer on substack and has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many other places. His book "The Cult of Smart" was named one of the 10 best books of 2020 by New York Magazine. In this episode, Freddie and I begin by discussing Karl Marx, the legacy of Marxism, and the so-called "labor theory of value". Freddie sees much more value in Marxism than I do so we disagree somewhat on that. We move on to discuss intelligence and the broken system of American higher education. A lot of that conversation is directly relevant to President Biden's recent student loan forgiveness executive order, although we recorded this right before that news broke. Finally, Freddie and I talked about wokeness and social justice ideology. -Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code [20COLEMAN] at Manscaped.com. That’s 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com and use code [20COLEMAN]. -Sign up through wren.co/coleman to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! -Sign up today at butcherbox.com/COLEMAN to get two, 10 oz New York strip steaks and 8 oz of lobster claw and knuckle meat FREE in your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

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friends and family.

0:57.2

As always, thank you so much for your support.

1:03.6

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

1:07.0

My guest today is Freddie DeBore.

1:09.4

Freddie is an independent writer on Substack, in addition to having

1:12.3

been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many other places.

1:17.9

His book, The Cult of Smart, was named one of the 10 best books of 2020 by New York Magazine.

1:23.6

Freddie and I begin by discussing Karl Marx, the legacy of Marxism, and the so-called labor theory of value.

1:30.3

Freddy sees a lot more value in Marxism than I do, so we disagree somewhat on that.

1:34.9

We move on to discuss intelligence and the broken system of American higher education.

1:40.0

A lot of that conversation is directly relevant to President Biden's recent student loan forgiveness

1:45.0

executive order, although we recorded this right before that news broke.

1:49.5

And finally, Freddie and I talk about wokeness and social justice ideology.

1:54.5

So without further ado, Freddie DeBoer.

2:01.7

All right, Freddie DeBoer.

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