Know Your Enemy: Masks Off
A look back at what 2020 revealed about the state of American conservatism.
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Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With the Supreme Court? With the 5-4 Podcast
The hosts of the podcast 5-4 talk about the rise of the conservative legal movement and the Supreme Court’s assault on American democracy.
Know Your Enemy: Talking Trump, with David Roth
David Roth, one of the best (and funniest) chroniclers of Donald Trump, takes stock of a grotesque and damaged man as he prepares to leave the White House.
Know Your Enemy: On the Road to Reaganland, with Rick Perlstein and Leon Neyfakh
A discussion about “Fiasco: The Battle for Boston,” the weird and wild 1970s, and Ronald Reagan’s path to victory.
Know Your Enemy: Not Even Past, with Jamelle Bouie
Matt and Sam are joined by New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie for a wide-ranging discussion of how conservatives (and liberals and leftists) use American history to make political claims in the present.
Know Your Enemy: Know Your Frenemies, with Samuel Moyn
A conversation with historian Samuel Moyn on the Never Trump movement, a collection of conservative intellectuals and Republican operatives trying to consolidate the so-called political center against not just Trump but also the left.
Know Your Enemy: Pandemic Politics, with Marshall Steinbaum and Sarah Jones
Two special guests, Sarah Jones and Marshall Steinbaum, return to the show to help Matt and Sam make sense of the politics of the pandemic.
Morbid Symptoms: An Interview with Ross Douthat
Can there be Trumpism without Trump?
Know Your Enemy: Strange Gods and Strong Gods, with Tara Isabella Burton
Matt and Sam talk to Tara Isabella Burton about the spiritual longing behind today’s politics.
The Nationalist Roots of White Evangelical Politics
From its origins, white evangelicalism has been marked by a vision of a Christian America, driven to overcome its perceived enemies.
Know Your Enemy #17: Longtime Listener, First-Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
Matt and Sam celebrate one year of Know Your Enemy by answering listener questions about hidden conservatives, right-wing novelists, COVID-19, George W. Bush, the Sanders collapse, and more.
Know Your Enemy #16: The Windbag City, with Marshall Steinbaum
Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.
The Once and Future Right
The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.
Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”
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.
Know Your Enemy #14: Morbid Symptoms, with Ross Douthat
Matt and Sam welcome their first “enemy” onto the show—Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the new book The Decadent Society—to talk about the state of conservatism.
