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Know Your Enemy: Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times, with Jennifer Burns

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 4, 2023

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

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 20, 2023

A discussion of Garry Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.

Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 30, 2023

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.

Know Your Enemy: In Search of Anti-Semitism, with John Ganz

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 16, 2023

John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.

Know Your Enemy: Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL, with Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, and Peter Beinart

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 26, 2023

Editors and writers from Jewish Currents stop by for a discussion on the contradictory history of the Anti-Defamation League—and how to make sense of its recent showdown with Elon Musk.

Know Your Enemy: What the Cold War Did to Liberalism, with Samuel Moyn

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 6, 2023

Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.

Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 21, 2023

Nate Hochman was fired from Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign after producing a video containing a Nazi symbol. Matt and Sam reflect on why they invited him on the show in 2021—and on what his trajectory tells us about the young right today.

Know Your Enemy: Midge Decter, Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 28, 2023

Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of an anti-feminist, neoconservative icon.

Know Your Enemy: Legal Trouble

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 17, 2023

Matt and Sam talk about the lawsuit filed against the podcast and Dissent before turning to the conservative movement’s recent victories at the Supreme Court.

Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With Men?

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 6, 2023

Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Mansfield.

Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 5, 2023

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.

Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 18, 2023

On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.

Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 5, 2023

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.