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Know Your Enemy: God, Death, and the Pandemic

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 18, 2021

Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”

Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman

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

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.

Know Your Enemy: Living at the End of Our World, with Daniel Sherrell and Dorothy Fortenberry

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 3, 2021

What does it feel like to imagine the future as climate catastrophe looms?

Know Your Enemy: Buckley for Mayor, with Sam Tanenhaus

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

William F. Buckley Jr. biographer Sam Tanenhaus digs into the National Review founder’s 1965 run for mayor of New York City.

Know Your Enemy: After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 28, 2021

An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”

Know Your Enemy: The Afterlife of January 6

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 19, 2021

Was the January 6 breaching of the Capitol a genuine coup attempt by an extra-parliamentary faction of the Trump movement? Or was it a disorganized and pathetic act of desperation?

Know Your Enemy: Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 21, 2021

A deep-dive into Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who achieved late-in-life wealth and fame after publishing his controversial best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind.

Know Your Enemy: The Enemy Within, with Brandy Jensen

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 25, 2021

Writer, editor, and advice columnist Brandy Jensen answers listener questions about how to be a person again (or for the first time) after the pandemic.

Know Your Enemy: The Long Farewell to Majority Rule, with Joshua Tait

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 18, 2021

What are the intellectual origins of conservative hostility to majoritarian democracy?

Know Your Enemy: Overheated, with Kate Aronoff

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 26, 2021

Kate Aronoff talks about the history of climate change denial, how the fossil-fuel industry’s strategy has shifted in recent years, and the prospects for a just, sustainable future.