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The Rise of the Illiberal Right
Episode 5
Interested in the background reading we did for this episode? There's a lot of it. But we want to show our work and give you the chance to dig deeper. Below are the articles we referenced, read, or d…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)
Episode 4
Special thanks to Will Epstein and The Downtown Boys for providing music for these two episodes. Check them out.
Ronald Reagan's televised "A Time for Choosing" speech in support of Barry Goldwater i…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1)
Episode 3
Sam Tanenhaus's original 2009 essay in The New Republic, the basis for the book we're discussing today: https://newrepublic.com/article/61721/conservatism-dead
Whitaker Chambers's 1957 dismantling of…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
How Conservatives Argue
Episode 2
In episode two of KNOW YOUR ENEMY, Matt and Sam discuss economist Albert O. Hirschman's 1991 book The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. Along the way, they identify the persisten…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Behind Enemy Lines
Episode 1
Read Matt's Dissent essay, "Leaving Conservatism Behind"
Read Sam's essay about Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West, "The Remnant and the Restless Crowd"
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago