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Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 18, 2023

On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.

Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 10, 2023

Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.

Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 5, 2023

In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.

Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 13, 2023

A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.

[EVENT | March 8] Winter Issue Discussion: The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife

Editors ▪ March 1, 2023

Join Sarah Jones and Zoe Hu for a discussion on stay-at-home girlfriends and feminism.

Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 27, 2023

Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”

Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 13, 2023

A discussion on Philip Rieff, a conservative sociologist concerned that society was being driven by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones.

Nurses End Strike in New York

Michelle Chen ▪ January 13, 2023

After a three-day strike, the New York State Nurses Association announced it had reached tentative agreements with two hospitals that will strengthen safe staffing standards.

Belabored: Essential Workers in Crisis, with Elizabeth Lalasz and Jia Lee

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 23, 2022

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.