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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, 9 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, 10 months ago
KYE EXTRA: "Morning Hate" (w/ Hannah Gais)
UNPAYWALLED:
Sam interviews journalist Hannah Gais about (1) the far right's ongoing efforts to infiltrate conservative media and (2) the self-victimi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Working-Class Conservatism (w/ Max Alvarez)
Episode 9
Matt and Sam talk to Max Alvarez—writer, editor, and host of Working People, an excellent podcast—about growing up working-class and conservative in …
6 years, 10 months ago
Koch'd Out
Episode 8
With the help of Jane Mayer's essential 2016 book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, your host…
6 years, 11 months ago
Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)
Episode 7
Matt and Sam's first ever guest, Patrick Blanchfield, is an Associate Faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and author of the …
7 years ago
The Definitely-Not-Racist National Conservatives
Episode 6
The first National Conservatism conference was convened at the Ritz Carlton in Washington D.C. two weeks ago. It was a coming out party for the risin…
7 years, 1 month ago
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…
7 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 fo…
7 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/conserv…
7 years, 2 months ago