Know Your Enemy: The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement
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?
Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s—and how the right responded.
Know Your Enemy: Consider the Cranks, with David Austin Walsh
Matt and Sam talk to historian David Austin Walsh about his new book, Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right.
Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman
Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair.
Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.
Know Your Enemy: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, with B.D. McClay
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.
Know Your Enemy: Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators
Matt and Sam talk to Jacob Heilbrunn about his new book, America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.
Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz
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.
Know Your Enemy: Building a “Better” Trump Administration
Matt and Sam explore how movement conservatives—and their think tanks—are preparing for a second Trump administration.
The History of the History of the Right, with Kim Phillips-Fein
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?
Dissent in 2023
Our most-read articles this year.
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.
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.
