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Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
Episode 47
When Joan Didion died at the age of 87 in December, her early conservatism figured into a number of obituaries and commentaries, but was rarely discu…
4 years, 1 month ago
UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Unlocked by popular demand: Psychoanalytic writer and teacher Pat Blanchfield joins Sam for a discussion of Freud and politics. Together we ask: how …
4 years, 1 month ago
Hindsight is 2021
Episode 46
With another year of the podcast, the pandemic, and American decline in the rearview, we turn to Know Your Enemy's absurdly brilliant listeners for g…
4 years, 2 months ago
Young, Radical, and on the Right (w/ Nate Hochman)
Episode 45
Finally, another enemy! This time Matt and Sam are joined by Nate Hochman, a rising star on the intellectual Right and one of the subjects of Sam's r…
4 years, 2 months ago
TEASER: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Psychoanalytic writer and teacher Pat Blanchfield joins Sam for the long-awaited KYE "Freud Pod," in which we discuss how psychoanalytic tools can he…
4 years, 3 months ago
Retvrn of the National Conservatives
Episode 44
It's rare for nearly all the inhabitants of the KYE podcast universe to gather in one place, but it happened earlier this month in—as you might guess…
4 years, 3 months ago
TEASER: I Am The GooseKing (w/ Ben Firke)
Matt talks with playwright Ben Firke about I Am The GooseKing, which just finished its debut run at The Tank theater in New York City. Here's a descr…
4 years, 3 months ago
Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism
Episode 43
Matt and Sam dedicate an entire episode to an under appreciated but indispensable figure in the founding of post-war conservatism: Frank Meyer, the f…
4 years, 3 months ago
TEASER: Reporting for Duty (w/ Dave Weigel)
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4 years, 4 months ago
The American Right's Hungary Hearts (w/ Lauren Stokes and John Ganz)
Episode 42
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz to unpack the American Right's ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán's Hungary, fro…
4 years, 4 months ago