Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later
Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months that followed.
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Dissent in 2025
Our most read articles this year.
Know Your Enemy: Trump’s Big, Beautiful Ballroom
A conversation with Kate Wagner about Trump’s White House ballroom project and the politics of architecture.
Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another
Matt and Sam are joined by Know Your Enemy’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film One Battle After Another.
Know Your Enemy: The Furious Minds of MAGA
Matt and Sam talk to Laura K. Field about her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.
Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
[EVENT | November 13] A Conversation With Heidi Reichinnek
An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Matt and Sam are very worried.
[VIDEO] How Will Zohran Govern?
A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era
Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.
[EVENT | October 14] How Will Zohran Govern?
A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Know Your Enemy: Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial
Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.
[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta
Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support Dissent.
Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy
Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism
Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer.
