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Know Your Enemy: Red-Diaper Baby, with Ari Brostoff

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 31, 2022

A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.

Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 21, 2022

Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.

Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 8, 2022

Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.

Know Your Enemy: Mothers of Conservatism, with Michelle M. Nickerson

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 28, 2022

In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.

Know Your Enemy: School Wars, with Jennifer Berkshire

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 31, 2022

A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.

Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 13, 2022

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.

Know Your Enemy: Hindsight is 2021

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 23, 2021

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.

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

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 16, 2021

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.

Know Your Enemy: Return of the National Conservatives

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 29, 2021

The second National Conservatism conference showed that the ideology has moved into the mainstream of the American right.

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, the Father of Fusionism

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 10, 2021

A deep dive into the life and work of Frank S. Meyer, the longtime senior editor at National Review who became most famous for his theory of “fusionism,” which combined the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement.