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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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Belabored: How Workers Escape, with Saket Soni  

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ June 2, 2023

In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.



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Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin  

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 19, 2023

The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?



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Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong  

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 5, 2023

On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.



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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.



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Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey  

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 21, 2023

The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.



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