
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.
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.
On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.
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.
A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
A discussion on Philip Rieff, a conservative sociologist concerned that society was being driven by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones.
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.
A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.
Barbara Ehrenreich was an essential guide to the inner life of American class conflict.
A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?
Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.