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Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 13, 2023

A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.



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Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 27, 2023

Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”



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Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 13, 2023

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.



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Know Your Enemy: J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, with Beverly Gage  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 20, 2022

For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.



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Know Your Enemy: You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag Episode)  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 1, 2022

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.



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Know Your Enemy: Nixon Agonistes  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 7, 2022

Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.



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Know Your Enemy: Why Conservatives Love Baseball, with David Roth  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 17, 2022

A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.



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Know Your Enemy: After the Theocons, with Damon Linker  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 20, 2022

A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.



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Know Your Enemy: On Barbara Ehrenreich, with Alex Press and Gabriel Winant  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 12, 2022

Barbara Ehrenreich was an essential guide to the inner life of American class conflict.



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Know Your Enemy: A Low, Dishonest Decade, with Nicole Hemmer  

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

A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.



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Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 11, 2022

What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?



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Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Three  

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 30, 2022

Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.



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