Know Your Enemy #15: The Year the Clock Broke, with John Ganz
John Ganz joins us to discuss David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and paleoconservatism’s undying influence on the Republican Party.
Winter 2026
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Why Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in the United States
During the past decade, social media has amplified the voices of white supremacists and anti-Semites, but it is Trump who has lent them legitimacy and emboldened them to come out of the shadows.
Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion
To plumb the depths of the neoconservative soul, Matt and Sam read Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir Making It with David Klion of Jewish Currents.
Old Millennial Yells at Cloud
Good politics don’t protect you from the pathologies of the internet.
Lifestyle Migrants
The contrasts between North Americans moving south and Central Americans traveling north, or Western migrants frolicking on Thai beaches while Burmese refugees languish in camps, are numerous and stark.
Stopping the War This Time
As the deadening pall of national security discourse once again falls over the United States, we need to hold onto the shock and outrage of these first hours.
Trump’s Betrayal of Rojava
Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria is a terrible blow for the international left.
The Obamanauts
What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?
A Limited Impeachment
Trump’s impeachment is long overdue. But the Democratic Party leadership’s desire to rush through proceedings points to fears about digging too deep into the corruption of the Washington establishment.
Give Political Power to Ordinary People
To fight elite capture of the state, it’s time to consider sortition, or the assignment of political power through lotteries.
Why Trump is Attacking “the Squad”
The four congresswomen who came under attack by Trump are popular—as are their policies. That’s why he is terrified of them.
Ross Perot, Populist Harbinger
Views that were fringe in Perot’s day have taken center stage in national politics.
Bernie Versus the Establishment?
The primary field isn’t polarized between left and center as clearly as it was in 2016. But Sanders is still the only candidate who tells us, over and over, that we need more than a good president.
How Movements Moved the Debates
If there is one thing the first Democratic debates made clear, it is that movements lead, politicians follow.
Poverty Doesn’t Make You Racist
According to a recent study, white voters who support anti-racist policies generally have less income than their more racist peers.
