Inconsistent Populists: Sohrab Ahmari and the Anti-Neoliberal Right
Tyranny, Inc. aims to build a working-class coalition between the left and right. But Ahmari cannot get around the GOP populists’ dismal record on labor.
Spring 2025
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A Real Opening
Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not.
Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair
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.
Will Be Wild
The only verdict on Trump and the MAGA movement that finally matters will be delivered through politics.
Do Democrats Care About the Mexican-American Vote?
The Republican Party’s midterm election expectations for South Texas were dashed. But Democrats should still see the results from the region as a wake-up call.
Who Rules the Rural South?
If we think culture explains voting behavior, we should be talking about a culture of disempowerment and resignation before we talk about a culture of conservatism.
Radical Taxation
Taxes demonstrate the legitimacy of democratic control of the economy. This is what conservatives cannot accept—and what surviving climate change will require.
The Authoritarian Danger at Home
Anti-China politics are providing cover for xenophobic and anti-democratic forces in the United States.
Where Was Everyone? The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy
The movement for abortion rights has made missteps. But abortion-rights advocates wouldn’t have had such a lonely battle with such imperfect choices had anyone else inserted themselves into the fray.
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.
Focus On the Family?
The return of the dynastic firm isn’t enough to explain the radicalization of the GOP.
Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection
The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.
