Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery
Matt and Sam talk to writers on Succession and Extrapolations about the WGA strike and how they approach political topics and themes on their shows.
Spring 2023
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Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter
On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.
Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein
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
A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk
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
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.
Know Your Enemy: J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, with Beverly Gage
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.
Know Your Enemy: You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag Episode)
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Know Your Enemy: Nixon Agonistes
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
Know Your Enemy: Why Conservatives Love Baseball, with David Roth
A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.
Know Your Enemy: After the Theocons, with Damon Linker
A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.
Know Your Enemy: On Barbara Ehrenreich, with Alex Press and Gabriel Winant
Barbara Ehrenreich was an essential guide to the inner life of American class conflict.
Know Your Enemy: A Low, Dishonest Decade, with Nicole Hemmer
A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann
What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?
Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Three
Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.
