Podcast Episodes

Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn)

Episode 88

The right's romance with odious foreign dictators didn't start with Putin or Viktor Orbán, and their profound contempt for democracy long predates Ja…

2 years, 7 months ago

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A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]

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Matt a…

2 years, 7 months ago

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René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)

Episode 87

The late René Girard, former Stanford professor of literature and mentor to Peter Thiel, is having something of a moment on the right these days—as S…

2 years, 8 months ago

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Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]

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Matt a…

2 years, 8 months ago

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Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration

Episode 86

As listeners might have noticed, 2024 is a presidential election year, and already the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power is looming over th…

2 years, 9 months ago

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[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman)

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Journey…

2 years, 9 months ago

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The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)

Episode 85

When did the American conservative movement begin? Who were its chief protagonists? What were their main motivations? Is the conservative movement a …

2 years, 9 months ago

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Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]

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2 years, 9 months ago

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Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)

Episode 84

For our final main episode of 2023, we're dipping back into the Wills well to discuss Garry's under-appreciated 2010 book, Bomb Power: The Modern Pre…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times (w/ Jennifer Burns)

Episode 83

In this episode, Matt and Sam are joined by Stanford historian Jennifer Burns to discuss her new biography of Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winnin…

2 years, 10 months ago

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