Know Your Enemy: Young, Radical, and on the Right, with Nate Hochman

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.

Nate Hochman (Rightly/YouTube)

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.

Finally, another enemy! This time Matt and Sam are joined by Nate Hochman, a rising star on the intellectual right and one of the subjects of Sam’s recent New Republic article about today’s young, populist conservatives. They discuss Michael Oakeshott, friendship and politics, where the right and left might agree, and—especially—where they do not.



Sources and further reading:

Sam Adler-Bell, The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right, The New Republic

Nate Hochman, Michael Oakeshott, 30 Years Later, National Review

Matthew Sitman, Leaving Conservatism Behind, Dissent

Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, Liberty Fund (1991)

Oakeshott, The Voice of Liberal Learning, Yale University Press (1990)



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