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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…
7 years 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 …
7 years 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…
7 years, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 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, 4 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, Je…
7 years, 5 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 C…
7 years, 5 months ago