Know Your Enemy: The Conservative and the Convict, with Sarah Weinman
The story of how William F. Buckley Jr. defied expectations and showed mercy to a death-row prisoner.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: The Right Kind of Worker, with Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.
Know Your Enemy: The Other Side of the Story, with Michael Kazin
A discussion on the Democratic Party, from its origins to the crack-up of the New Deal coalition and the rise of the right that followed.
Know Your Enemy: Red-Diaper Baby, with Ari Brostoff
A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.
Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter
Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.
Know Your Enemy: Mothers of Conservatism, with Michelle M. Nickerson
In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.
Know Your Enemy: School Wars, with Jennifer Berkshire
A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.
Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.
Know Your Enemy: Hindsight is 2021
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.
Know Your Enemy: Young, Radical, and on the Right, with Nate Hochman
A rising star on the intellectual right joins Matt and Sam for a conversation on where the right and left might agree, and—especially—where they do not.
Know Your Enemy: Return of the National Conservatives
The second National Conservatism conference showed that the ideology has moved into the mainstream of the American right.
Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, the Father of Fusionism
A deep dive into the life and work of Frank S. Meyer, the longtime senior editor at National Review who became most famous for his theory of “fusionism,” which combined the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement.
Know Your Enemy: The American Right’s Hungary Hearts, with Lauren Stokes and John Ganz
Historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz unpack the American right’s ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
Know Your Enemy: God, Death, and the Pandemic
Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”
