Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz
Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student.
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Know Your Enemy: Building a “Better” Trump Administration
Matt and Sam explore how movement conservatives—and their think tanks—are preparing for a second Trump administration.
The World That Municipal Socialists Built
Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.
To Hell With Poverty
In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
A New Class Consciousness
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
Chipping Away at the Right to Strike
Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.
Saule Omarova’s Plan to Remake the Financial System
What would it look like if we subordinated finance to the public interest?
Know Your Enemy: Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL, with Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, and Peter Beinart
Editors and writers from Jewish Currents stop by for a discussion on the contradictory history of the Anti-Defamation League—and how to make sense of its recent showdown with Elon Musk.
Shared Terrain
The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.
A Durable Concept
Nothing has replaced neoliberalism as a better descriptor for the political-economic order we inhabit.
A Real Opening
Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not.
Know Your Enemy: What the Cold War Did to Liberalism, with Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.
The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy 
Is a new Cold War the price of admission for the return of industrial policy?
Know Your Enemy: The Hochman Affair
Nate Hochman was fired from Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign after producing a video containing a Nazi symbol. Matt and Sam reflect on why they invited him on the show in 2021—and on what his trajectory tells us about the young right today.
The Coming Public Education Crisis
A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
