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.
Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of an anti-feminist, neoconservative icon.
Matt and Sam talk about the lawsuit filed against the podcast and Dissent before turning to the conservative movement’s recent victories at the Supreme Court.
Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Mansfield.
Matt and Sam talk to writers on Succession and Extrapolations about the WGA strike and how they approach political topics and themes on their shows.
On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.
In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.
A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
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.
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.
A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.
