Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann
What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?
What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?
Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.
Matt and Sam dig into the origins of the Christian right, its eventual embrace of anti-abortion politics, and how it joined forces with the GOP.
Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael of the 5-4 podcast discuss the impending end of Roe v. Wade—and how the right used the courts to achieve its aims.
The story of how William F. Buckley Jr. defied expectations and showed mercy to a death-row prisoner.
Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.
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.
A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.
Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
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.
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.
A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.
A rising star on the intellectual right joins Matt and Sam for a conversation on where the right and left might agree, and—especially—where they do not.