
Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk
Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
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.
Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.
Long COVID is a labor rights issue.
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Walmart and Kroger workers discuss the added stress of working during the holidays.
Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.
An organizer from Los Deliveristas Unidos talks about delivering food through the pandemic and what the group is fighting for next.
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
A mental healthcare provider discusses the pandemic’s effects on her work.
A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.
Labor journalists discuss media coverage of the recent strike wave in Britain.
Two congressional staffers discuss the push to unionize Capitol Hill.
A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.