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Know Your Enemy: Bomb Power, with Erik Baker

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 20, 2023

Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.

Shlomo Avineri, 1933–2023

Michael Walzer ▪ December 4, 2023

The Israeli political theorist, Shlomo Avineri, a longtime friend of Dissent, died in Jerusalem on December 1. He made his reputation writing major books on Marx and Hegel, but he was never simply an academic. Throughout his life, he was …

Know Your Enemy: Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times, with Jennifer Burns

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 4, 2023

Matt and Sam interview historian Jennifer Burns about her new biography of Nobel Prize–winning economist and libertarian intellectual Milton Friedman.

Know Your Enemy: The Kennedy Imprisonment, with Jeet Heer

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 20, 2023

A discussion of Garry Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.

Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 30, 2023

In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums.

Know Your Enemy: In Search of Anti-Semitism, with John Ganz

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 16, 2023

John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.

Celebrate Dissent at 70

Editors ▪ September 28, 2023

Join Dissent on October 25 to celebrate 70 years of our remarkable magazine.

Know Your Enemy: Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL, with Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, and Peter Beinart

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 26, 2023

Editors and writers from Jewish Currents stop by for a discussion on the contradictory history of the Anti-Defamation League—and how to make sense of its recent showdown with Elon Musk.

Know Your Enemy: What the Cold War Did to Liberalism, with Samuel Moyn

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 6, 2023

Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.

Up From Neoliberalism

Editors ▪ August 25, 2023

A preview of our Fall 2023 issue.

Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 21, 2023

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.

Know Your Enemy: Midge Decter, Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 28, 2023

Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of an anti-feminist, neoconservative icon.

Know Your Enemy: Legal Trouble

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 17, 2023

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.