Podcast Episodes

January 6, Five Years Later (w/ Robert Draper)

Episode 127

For years now on Know Your Enemy, we've taken the January 6, 2021 insurrection as a glimpse of Trumpism unbound—not a few naive Q-anon types and tour…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Great Books and the AI Apocalypse (w/ Matt Dinan) [Teaser]

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We were excited to record and share this conversation with Mat…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)

This episode originally aired November 17, 2025 on Patreon — we're unlocking it as a holiday treat. 

If there's a Trump-era topic that manages to fasc…

10 months, 1 week ago

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What We Got Wrong (and Right) about the Right in 2025 [Teaser]

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As the end of the year approaches, we wanted to look back at a…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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One Podcast After Another (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

Episode 126

Given the not-terribly-uplifting streak of episodes we've had lately, we thought it was time for a Know Your Enemy movie night, and were joined by th…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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On Friendship (w/ Andy Elrick)

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Should you try to improve your friends or leave them be? Do fr…

10 months, 4 weeks ago

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The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field)

Episode 125

Laura K. Field's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, published earlier this month, is a book we simply had to discuss. Listeners to this…

11 months ago

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Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser]

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If there's a Trump-era topic that manages to fascinate without…

11 months, 1 week ago

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Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza (w/ Peter Beinart)

Episode 124

This episode isn't focused on a single topic or text, but rather just wanting to have a wide-ranging conversation with our guest, Peter Beinart, edit…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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Break Glass in Case of Emergency

Episode 123

This is a different kind of episode than is typical; there's no book, no central text, not even a single, central event that guides the conversation.…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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