Matt and Sam celebrate one year of Know Your Enemy by answering listener questions about hidden conservatives, right-wing novelists, COVID-19, George W. Bush, the Sanders collapse, and more.
Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.
Can there be Trumpism without Trump?
John Ganz joins us to discuss David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and paleoconservatism’s undying influence on the Republican Party.
Matt and Sam welcome their first “enemy” onto the show—Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the new book The Decadent Society—to talk about the state of conservatism.
To plumb the depths of the neoconservative soul, Matt and Sam read Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir Making It with David Klion of Jewish Currents.
How does patriarchy condition women’s political careers? How does the right mobilize anti-feminism to win?
A long chat with Will Arbery, the playwright behind Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a riveting new play about conservative Catholics in the Trump era.
Journalist Sarah Jones joins hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell to discuss the myth of “Trump Country,” the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, and…the End Times.
Matt and Sam talk to Max Alvarez—writer, editor, and host of the podcast Working People—about growing up working-class and conservative in a mixed-race household.
How did ultra-wealthy families like the Kochs, Scaifes, Olins, and Bradleys use their fortunes to reshape American politics?
