Trump the Dove? Or Trump the Neocon?
Matt and Sam are joined by Curt Mills of the American Conservative to assess Trump’s national security team.
Fall 2024
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Know Your Enemy: Trump’s Triumph
Matt and Sam talk to reporter Ian Ward about Trump’s victory and the fight for influence in his second term.
Know Your Enemy: The Infernal Triangle
Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein explains what Democrats and the media are (still) getting wrong about the threat from Trump and the far right.
Know Your Enemy: Boys and Girls in America
Matt and Sam talk to screenwriter Dorothy Fortenberry about families, gender, and the 2024 election.
Know Your Friends: 100th Episode Mailbag
Matt and Sam answer listener questions for their 100th episode—and hear from friends of the podcast, new and old.
Know Your Enemy: Political Fictions
Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel Great Expectations, political theater, and Barack Obama.
Know Your Enemy: What Happened to America’s Political Parties?
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With J.D. Vance?
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Know Your Enemy: Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Suzanne Schneider to discuss how Israeli illiberalism is inspiring the global right.
Know Your Enemy: When the Clock Broke
Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
Know Your Enemy: The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement
Matt and Sam are joined by Neil J. Young to discuss his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right.
Know Your Enemy: What Was the CIO?
Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s—and how the right responded.
Know Your Enemy: Consider the Cranks, with David Austin Walsh
Matt and Sam talk to historian David Austin Walsh about his new book, Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right.
Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman
Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair.
Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.
