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Know Your Enemy: A Low, Dishonest Decade, with Nicole Hemmer

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 31, 2022

A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.

Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 11, 2022

What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?

Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Three

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 30, 2022

Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.

Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Two, on the Christian Right

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 17, 2022

Matt and Sam dig into the origins of the Christian right, its eventual embrace of anti-abortion politics, and how it joined forces with the GOP.

Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part One, with the 5-4 Podcast

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 31, 2022

Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael of the 5-4 podcast discuss the impending end of Roe v. Wade—and how the right used the courts to achieve its aims.

Know Your Enemy: The Conservative and the Convict, with Sarah Weinman

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 9, 2022

The story of how William F. Buckley Jr. defied expectations and showed mercy to a death-row prisoner.

Know Your Enemy: The Right Kind of Worker, with Gabriel Winant

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 2, 2022

Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.

Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 21, 2022

Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.

Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 8, 2022

Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.

Know Your Enemy: Mothers of Conservatism, with Michelle M. Nickerson

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 28, 2022

In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.

Know Your Enemy: School Wars, with Jennifer Berkshire

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 31, 2022

A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.

Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 13, 2022

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.

Know Your Enemy: Hindsight is 2021

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 23, 2021

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.

Know Your Enemy: Young, Radical, and on the Right, with Nate Hochman

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ December 16, 2021

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.