Know Your Enemy: In Search of Anti-Semitism, with John Ganz
John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.
Winter 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL, with Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, and Peter Beinart
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
Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.
Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair
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
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
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.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With Men?
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.
Belabored: How Workers Escape, with Saket Soni
In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.
Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin
The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?
Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong
On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.
Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery
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.
Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey
The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.
Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter
On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.
Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson
Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.
Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein
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.
