Matt Christman
Matt Christman is an American leftist commentator, author, and podcast host best known as one of the original and ongoing hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House. Before Chapo, Christman was associated with Street Fight Radio and was somewhat known on Left Twitter.[citation needed] Christman has a unique style of analysis which blends Marxist dialectical materialism with other philosophical trends and modern historical research. He was a co-author of the Chapo bestselling book and has created several mini-podcasts and one-off episodes about topics like Mormonism, Weather Underground, Operation Gladio, the history of the United States presidency, and the Thirty Years' War, as well as a forthcoming podcast about the Spanish Civil War.
For several years, Christman has been regularly posting solo vlogs on the Chapo YouTube channel called "CushVlogs", which involve reviews of recent books on history and anthropology but also often feature Christman's synthesis of Christian mystical terminology and philosophy with the Marxist tradition to describe the new forms of consciousness created by the 21st-century capitalist system.
On 22 September 2023, Chapo Trap House announced that Christman had "suffered a sudden, severe medical emergency that will require a significant period of recovery" and would be "out of commission for the indefinite future". As of September 25, Christman remained hospitalized in stable condition. His family and colleagues did not disclose the nature of his illness. The incident unfortunately caused him to miss the birth of his first child on September 24th.
External links
- Chapo Trap House YouTube channel, home of Christman's "CushVlogs"