Know Your Enemy: The Right Kind of Worker, with Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: The Other Side of the Story, with Michael Kazin
A discussion on the Democratic Party, from its origins to the crack-up of the New Deal coalition and the rise of the right that followed.
Know Your Enemy: Red-Diaper Baby, with Ari Brostoff
A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.
Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter
Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.
Know Your Enemy: Mothers of Conservatism, with Michelle M. Nickerson
In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.
Know Your Enemy: School Wars, with Jennifer Berkshire
A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.
[EVENT | December 16] Belabored Live: The Great Resignation
Join us on Thursday, December 16 for a live episode of Belabored.
Know Your Enemy: God, Death, and the Pandemic
Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”
Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
Know Your Enemy: Living at the End of Our World, with Daniel Sherrell and Dorothy Fortenberry
What does it feel like to imagine the future as climate catastrophe looms?
Know Your Enemy: Buckley for Mayor, with Sam Tanenhaus
William F. Buckley Jr. biographer Sam Tanenhaus digs into the National Review founder’s 1965 run for mayor of New York City.
Know Your Enemy: After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman
An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”
Know Your Enemy: The Afterlife of January 6
Was the January 6 breaching of the Capitol a genuine coup attempt by an extra-parliamentary faction of the Trump movement? Or was it a disorganized and pathetic act of desperation?
Know Your Enemy: Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow
A deep-dive into Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who achieved late-in-life wealth and fame after publishing his controversial best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind.
