Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far?

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.

Attention Stuffed

Antón Barba-Kay ▪ Spring 2025

Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance

Editors ▪ July 22, 2025

A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

The Painter of the Right

Sarah Jones ▪ July 16, 2025

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 7, 2025

Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

What Can Zohran Accomplish?

J.W. Mason ▪ July 4, 2025

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

Can We Remake Finance?

Fred Block ▪ Spring 2025

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia

Ross Perlin ▪ June 24, 2025

An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.

The Bad Science Behind Trans Medicine Bans

Joanna Wuest and Briana S. Last ▪ Winter 2025

The conservative movement has built its case against gender-affirming care on the authority of anachronistic, faulty clinical research.

Why Did Immigrants Support Trump?

Paulina Ochoa Espejo ▪ Spring 2025

The political problem of the border arises from a broader crisis of state legitimacy.

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles

Manuel Pastor ▪ June 13, 2025

The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be needed.

[EVENT | July 10] Labor’s Partisans

Editors ▪ June 12, 2025

A discussion with Alex Press and E. Tammy Kim, moderated by Natasha Lewis.

The Value of Nature

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2025

Why have some gifts of nature remained free?

American Ideologies

Nicolás Medina Mora ▪ June 10, 2025

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.