Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.
Fall 2024
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Know Your Enemy: Hindsight is 2021
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.
Belabored: The Great Resignation
Rebecca Kolins Givan and C.M. Lewis look back at the year in labor.
Know Your Enemy: Young, Radical, and on the Right, with Nate Hochman
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.
Belabored: Supply Chain Chaos, with Charmaine Chua
A discussion on global shipping, just-in-time manufacturing, and why fixing the supply chain means rethinking endless growth.
Know Your Enemy: Return of the National Conservatives
The second National Conservatism conference showed that the ideology has moved into the mainstream of the American right.
Belabored: Our Neglected Human Infrastructure, with Sadé Dozan
Sadé Dozan of Caring Across Generations discusses the Build Back Better bill, which would put some $150 billion into Medicaid-supported homecare services.
Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, the Father of Fusionism
A deep dive into the life and work of Frank S. Meyer, the longtime senior editor at National Review who became most famous for his theory of “fusionism,” which combined the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement.
Belabored: Work Without the Workers, with Phil Jones
How do you take industrial action when your workplace is your computer? In his new book, Phil Jones considers the millions of “microworkers” around the world who process data for digital platforms.
Know Your Enemy: The American Right’s Hungary Hearts, with Lauren Stokes and John Ganz
Historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz unpack the American right’s ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
Belabored: Can the United Auto Workers Be Democratized? With Justin Mayhugh
For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.
Know Your Enemy: God, Death, and the Pandemic
Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”
Belabored: Toward a Liberatory Unionism, with Eve Livingston
Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on the brink of rebellion.
Belabored: The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street, with Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit
Though the occupation didn’t last long, it shaped many subsequent campaigns and movements, including in organized labor.
Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
