Know Your Enemy: What Happened to America’s Political Parties?
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With J.D. Vance?
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Know Your Enemy: Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Suzanne Schneider to discuss how Israeli illiberalism is inspiring the global right.
Know Your Enemy: When the Clock Broke
Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
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.
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?
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.
