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KYE Extra: The Sad Truth (w/ Shuja Haider)
Matt and Sam are joined by writer and editor Shuja Haider to discuss a topic near and dear to all of our hearts: country music. We talk about country…
6 years, 5 months ago
Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
Episode 17
Here it is—the mailbag episode. Recorded on 4/20 and celebrating a full year of Know Your Enemy, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about: conser…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Windbag City (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)
Episode 16
Matt and Sam are finally joined by the show's longtime bête noire, Marshall Steinbaum, for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the w…
6 years, 6 months ago
KYE Extra: "Last Ounce of Courage"
Our rollicking conversation with Know Your Enemy Film Correspondent Jesse Brenneman is now out from behind the paywall! Be prepared: we dive into Dar…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)
Episode 15
Matt and Sam talk to John Ganz about paleoconservatism, the Island of the Misfit Toys of the American right. Along the way we're introduced to David …
6 years, 7 months ago
Morbid Symptoms (w/ Ross Douthat)
Episode 14
Ross Douthat is that strangest of all creatures, a religious conservative with a New York Times column—a perch from which he pronounces on U.S. polit…
6 years, 8 months ago
What Happened to Norman? (w/ David Klion)
Episode 13
Making It is Norman Podhoretz's 1967 memoir about his journey from the working-class neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn to his heady ascent in the…
6 years, 9 months ago
She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)
Episode 12
Matt and Sam talk to Rebecca Traister of New York magazine about sexism and electoral politics. How has patriarchy conditioned the political careers …
6 years, 11 months ago
We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery)
Episode 11
Will Arbery's play "Heroes of the Fourth Turning"—about four conservative Catholic friends arguing under a night sky in Wyoming—feels like it was wri…
6 years, 11 months ago
Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)
Episode 10
Sarah Jones joins Matt and Sam to discuss the myth of "Trump Country" and the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, and to address the most importa…
6 years, 11 months ago