Matt and Sam are joined by New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie for a wide-ranging discussion of how conservatives (and liberals and leftists) use American history to make political claims in the present.
A conversation with historian Samuel Moyn on the Never Trump movement, a collection of conservative intellectuals and Republican operatives trying to consolidate the so-called political center against not just Trump but also the left.
Two special guests, Sarah Jones and Marshall Steinbaum, return to the show to help Matt and Sam make sense of the politics of the pandemic.
Can there be Trumpism without Trump?
Matt and Sam talk to Tara Isabella Burton about the spiritual longing behind today’s politics.
From its origins, white evangelicalism has been marked by a vision of a Christian America, driven to overcome its perceived enemies.
Matt and Sam celebrate one year of Know Your Enemy by answering listener questions about hidden conservatives, right-wing novelists, COVID-19, George W. Bush, the Sanders collapse, and more.
Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.
The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.
Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”
John Ganz joins us to discuss David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and paleoconservatism’s undying influence on the Republican Party.
Matt and Sam welcome their first “enemy” onto the show—Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the new book The Decadent Society—to talk about the state of conservatism.
To plumb the depths of the neoconservative soul, Matt and Sam read Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir Making It with David Klion of Jewish Currents.
How does patriarchy condition women’s political careers? How does the right mobilize anti-feminism to win?
A long chat with Will Arbery, the playwright behind Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a riveting new play about conservative Catholics in the Trump era.
Journalist Sarah Jones joins hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell to discuss the myth of “Trump Country,” the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, and…the End Times.
