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Know Your Enemy: What Happened to America’s Political Parties?  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 19, 2024

Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.



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Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With J.D. Vance?  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 12, 2024

Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.



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Know Your Enemy: Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 19, 2024

Matt and Sam are joined by historian Suzanne Schneider to discuss how Israeli illiberalism is inspiring the global right.



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Know Your Enemy: When the Clock Broke  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 24, 2024

Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.



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Know Your Enemy: The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 18, 2024

Matt and Sam are joined by Neil J. Young to discuss his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right.



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Know Your Enemy: What Was the CIO?  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 28, 2024

Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s—and how the right responded.



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After the Populist Moment  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024

By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives’ abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted.

Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”



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Know Your Enemy: Consider the Cranks, with David Austin Walsh  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 21, 2024

Matt and Sam talk to historian David Austin Walsh about his new book, Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right.



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Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 29, 2024

Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair.



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Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 17, 2024

Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.



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Know Your Enemy: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, with B.D. McClay  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 26, 2024

Matt and Sam talk to B.D. McClay about the right’s freakout over Taylor Swift—and what she can tell us about American fame, fortune, and fear.



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Know Your Enemy: Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 11, 2024

Matt and Sam talk to Jacob Heilbrunn about his new book, America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.



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Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 26, 2024

Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student.



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Know Your Enemy: Building a “Better” Trump Administration  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 31, 2024

Matt and Sam explore how movement conservatives—and their think tanks—are preparing for a second Trump administration.



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The History of the History of the Right, with Kim Phillips-Fein  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 18, 2024

Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss historical scholarship on American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should the field orient itself to 2024?



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