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.
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.
The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?
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.
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.
The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.
On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.
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.
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.
