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Command + F + Hitler [Teaser]

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The theme of this rank punditry episode is Getting in Trouble …

1 year ago

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How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era

Episode 122

This episode is the second in our occasional series on important, controversial, or unusually relevant conservative texts from the recent past. Here …

1 year ago

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How To Give A Damn [Teaser]

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Before embarking on a spirited bout of rank punditry, we take …

1 year ago

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Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial (w/ Pat Blanchfield)

Episode 121

To try to understand both the power and strangeness of the Charlie Kirk memorial—one part evangelical worship service, one part MAGA rally—we turned,…

1 year, 1 month ago

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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk [Teaser]

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The assassination of Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk o…

1 year, 1 month ago

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The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu)

Episode 120

Since the start of the Trump Era over a decade ago, few words have been deployed as often as "democracy": how it's become imperiled, who threatens it…

1 year, 1 month ago

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An Officer and a Spy (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]

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Roman Polanski's 2019 film about the Dreyfus affair, An Office…

1 year, 1 month ago

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Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism (w/ Daniel J. Flynn)

Episode 119

Devoted Know Your Enemy listeners will recall that, in November 2021, we released a fairly dense, theory-driven episode on Frank Meyer, the Communist…

1 year, 2 months ago

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The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [Unlocked]

This episode was first published in October 2024, and has been un-paywalled following the death this week, on August 21, of Focus on the Family found…

1 year, 2 months ago

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The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang)

Episode 118

A major topic following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that's…

1 year, 2 months ago

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