Matt and Sam are joined by Molly Crabapple to discuss her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.
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[EVENT | May 14] Decline and Fall: Know Your Enemy and Revolutions
A live podcast event.
The Kerala Consensus
How did a society segregated by caste, class, and religion become an egalitarian community?
Trump’s False Promise of Liberation
The war with Iran will not produce a freer or more democratic country.
Abolitionist Feminism
An interview with Kathi Weeks.
A New Non-Aligned Movement?
The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
The Epstein Class
The real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class.
Know Your Enemy: From Neocon to Never-Trump
Matt and Sam talk to Bill Kristol about his journey from neoconservative thought leader to anti-Trump liberal.
Trump’s War
The fact that the war in Iran has proven so shocking to both Trump’s base and the broader commentariat reflects how distorted the popular view of Trump and MAGA has become.
City Limits
Anne Hidalgo’s mayoralty illustrates the limits of local responses to national and international problems like housing and climate change. Without wider coordination, even the most successful mayor’s reach can only extend so far.
War, Revolt, and Iran’s Unfinished Struggle
The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizational weakness of Iranian civil society—dynamics that will continue to shape the country in the months to come.
Know Your Enemy: Trump’s War Against Iran
Matt and Sam talk to Matt Duss, a leading foreign policy expert on the left, about the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.
Could Democrats Regain the Rural Vote?
The end of the twentieth century left rural America shell-shocked, and residents reacted accordingly.
A Tale of Two Plumbers
Hannah Spencer’s victory in a UK parliamentary by-election is a major win for the Green Party, which aims to build a viable left-populist alternative to Reform UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
A New Vision for Public Lands
Policy debates around public lands point to larger unresolved questions about the nature and function of the public trust. What should we do with this national resource at a moment of major transition?
Know Your Enemy: Leaving MAGA Behind
Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
