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Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 13, 2023

A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.

Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 27, 2023

Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”

Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 13, 2023

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.

Know Your Enemy: J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, with Beverly Gage

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 20, 2022

For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.

[EVENT | December 15] Belabored Live: Essential Workers in Crisis

Editors ▪ December 6, 2022

Join us on Thursday, December 15 for a live episode of Belabored.

Know Your Enemy: You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag Episode)

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 1, 2022

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.

Know Your Enemy: Nixon Agonistes

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 7, 2022

Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.

Know Your Enemy: Why Conservatives Love Baseball, with David Roth

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 17, 2022

A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.

Know Your Enemy: After the Theocons, with Damon Linker

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 20, 2022

A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.