Podcast Episodes

The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu)

Episode 120

Since the start of the Trump Era over a decade ago, few words have been deployed as often as "democracy": how it's become imperiled, who threatens it, and what to do to defend it. In The Right of the…

Published on 7 hours ago

An Officer and a Spy (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]

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Roman Polanski's 2019 film about the Dreyfus affair, An Officer and a Spy, only recently made it's U.S. "premier…

Published on 1 week ago

Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism (w/ Daniel J. Flynn)

Episode 119

Devoted Know Your Enemy listeners will recall that, in November 2021, we released a fairly dense, theory-driven episode on Frank Meyer, the Communist from New Jersey whose exploits on behalf of the P…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [Unlocked]

This episode was first published in October 2024, and has been un-paywalled following the death this week, on August 21, of Focus on the Family founder and influential figure on the religious right, …

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang)

Episode 118

A major topic following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that's scrambled many people's assumptions about America…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

From Armageddon to Zionism — More Listener Questions [Teaser]

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Our mailbag runneth over! Unsurprisingly, we received so many excellent questions from subscribers for our most …

Published on 1 month ago

Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? — And Other Questions

Episode 117

It's been nearly a year since we asked our subscribers to send us questions for a mailbag episode—which they did, with remarkable thoughtfulness and intelligence, for our 100th episode back in Septem…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Trump's Epstein Problem [Teaser]

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Over July 4th weekend, the Department of Justice and FBI put out a memo essentially declaring "case closed" on t…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked]

This episode from January 2025 has been un-paywalled for your summer enjoyment...

A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking about American decline—often making direc…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Zohran! (w/ Waleed Shahid) [Teaser]

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We don't do too many New York City-focused episodes on Know Your Enemy, but Zohran Mamdani's decisive win in the…

Published on 2 months ago