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Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 15, 2025

Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.

Editors ▪ September 30, 2025

A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 29, 2025

Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.

Editors ▪ September 17, 2025

Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support Dissent.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 12, 2025

Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 28, 2025

Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer.

Editors ▪ August 28, 2025

An exhibition of tapestries by Tabitha Arnold.

Editors ▪ August 28, 2025

A preview of our Fall 2025 issue.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 18, 2025

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 4, 2025

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.

Editors ▪ July 22, 2025

A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 7, 2025

Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

Editors ▪ June 12, 2025

A discussion with Alex Press and E. Tammy Kim, moderated by Natasha Lewis.

Editors ▪ June 4, 2025

A discussion with Zach Lou and Moira Birss, moderated by Patrick Iber.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 3, 2025

Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Fall 2025