Know Your Enemy: You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag Episode)
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Winter 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Nixon Agonistes
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
Know Your Enemy: Why Conservatives Love Baseball, with David Roth
A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.
Know Your Enemy: After the Theocons, with Damon Linker
A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.
Know Your Enemy: On Barbara Ehrenreich, with Alex Press and Gabriel Winant
Barbara Ehrenreich was an essential guide to the inner life of American class conflict.
Know Your Enemy: A Low, Dishonest Decade, with Nicole Hemmer
A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann
What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?
Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Three
Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.
Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Two, on the Christian Right
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.
Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part One, with the 5-4 Podcast
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.
Know Your Enemy: The Conservative and the Convict, with Sarah Weinman
The story of how William F. Buckley Jr. defied expectations and showed mercy to a death-row prisoner.
Know Your Enemy: The Right Kind of Worker, with Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.
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.
