Know Your Enemy: Bomb Power, with Erik Baker
Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times, with Jennifer Burns
Matt and Sam interview historian Jennifer Burns about her new biography of Nobel Prize–winning economist and libertarian intellectual Milton Friedman.
Know Your Enemy: The Kennedy Imprisonment, with Jeet Heer
A discussion of Garry Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.
Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered
In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums.
Know Your Enemy: In Search of Anti-Semitism, with John Ganz
John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.
Know Your Enemy: Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL, with Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, and Peter Beinart
Editors and writers from Jewish Currents stop by for a discussion on the contradictory history of the Anti-Defamation League—and how to make sense of its recent showdown with Elon Musk.
Know Your Enemy: What the Cold War Did to Liberalism, with Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.
Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair
Nate Hochman was fired from Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign after producing a video containing a Nazi symbol. Matt and Sam reflect on why they invited him on the show in 2021—and on what his trajectory tells us about the young right today.
Know Your Enemy: Midge Decter, Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior
Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of an anti-feminist, neoconservative icon.
Know Your Enemy: Legal Trouble
Matt and Sam talk about the lawsuit filed against the podcast and Dissent before turning to the conservative movement’s recent victories at the Supreme Court.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With Men?
Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Mansfield.
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.
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.
