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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.

Know Your Enemy: The Rush Limbaugh Show, with Nicole Hemmer

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 9, 2021

Historian Nicole Hemmer discusses the life and legacy of the late talk-radio juggernaut Rush Limbaugh.

Know Your Enemy: How to Survive a Pandemic, with Peter Staley

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 22, 2021

Veteran HIV/AIDS activist Peter Staley discusses the AIDS crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of his friend Dr. Anthony Fauci in both.

Know Your Enemy: Panic! In America, with the You’re Wrong About Podcast

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 1, 2021

A discussion on how moral panics fueled America’s right turn, with Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes.

[EVENT | December 14] Belabored Live: How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives

Editors ▪ December 7, 2020

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, the co-hosts of the Belabored podcast, will gather some of the smartest thinkers about labor and unions to look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers.

Hot & Bothered: A Glide Path to Ruin

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ November 14, 2020

Where should the climate movement be focusing its energy in the Biden era?

The Relational Economy

Sarah Jaffe ▪ Summer 2020

Both romantic and working relationships are under extraordinary pressure. Can we seize this moment to reclaim our hearts from our jobs?

Know Your Enemy: Know Your Frenemies, with Samuel Moyn

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 10, 2020

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

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 8, 2020

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.

Hot & Bothered: A Decade to Win

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ June 25, 2020

Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade.

Hot & Bothered: An Abolitionist Green New Deal, with Jasson Perez

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ June 18, 2020

What does an abolitionist, ecosocialist program look like in practice? Researcher and organizer Jasson Perez explains why working toward police and prison abolition is key to building social movements and, ultimately, expanding the horizon of a vibrant working-class life.

Hot & Bothered: Putting Racial Justice First, with Patrick Houston

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ June 11, 2020

Connecting the dots between racial injustice and the climate crisis isn’t just a question of principle—it’s a daily reality. Organizer Patrick Houston describes how the movement can win.