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Kamala's Commanding Debate Performance
Your intrepid hosts watched the first, and possibly only, presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump so you didn't have to—and then stayed up late to talk about it. After a somewh...
2024-09-12 01:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Uncommitted Movement (w/ Waleed Shahid & Abbas Alawieh)
Matt and Sam interview Waleed Shahid and Abbas Alawieh, two organizers of the Uncommitted Movement, about their experiences in the months following October 7 as well as before, during, and after th...
2024-09-06 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 100! We Want Your Questions For It
The next episode of Know Your Enemy will be our 100th! While we've recorded more than one hundred episodes if we include all of our bonus episodes available to you, our beloved subscribers, they ar...
2024-09-04 02:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostPolitical Fictions (w/ Vinson Cunningham)
Today, we're joined by one of our favorite writers and thinkers, Vinson Cunningham, to discuss his e...
2024-08-31 19:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostKamala's Convention
Four days in Chicago, dozens of speeches by Democratic luminaries and backbenchers, and a spotlight on Kamala Harris, who reintroduced herself to America — your favorite podcast co-hosts endured ...
2024-08-23 22:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhat Happened to America's Political Parties? (w/ Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld)
Why are American political parties so ineffectual? Why do they seem, simultaneously, so frantically active and so incapable of achieving specific objectives? Why have the Democrats tended to seem ...
2024-08-16 16:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's Wrong with J.D. Vance?
In this episode, your co-hosts take a harrowing journey into the life, mind, and times of J.D. Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio and current vice-presidential pick of Donald Trump. You probab...
2024-08-10 18:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostProject 2025 Implodes (w/ Mary Harris)
An extra episode for you: Sam went on Slate's What Next &nbs...
2024-08-05 16:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostTrump Survives, Biden Doesn't. Where Are We?
In the week-and-a-half since we last offered you, our beloved subscribers, the highest quality election punditry around, a lot has happened: on the Democratic side of the ledger, "The...
2024-07-23 13:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostYoram Hazony’s Israeli Model (w/ Suzanne Schneider)
Last week, as Israel continued to prosecute its eliminationist war against Palestinians in Gaza, an eclectic group of right-wing bigwigs gathered in Washington, DC for the fourth iteration of the N...
2024-07-19 17:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf Joe's Cooked, What Now? (w/ Ettingermentum)
Just about two weeks ago, we gave 2024-07-12 13:29:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Joe's Gotta Go
We watched it, and you probably did too. Here is our analysis of the incredibly depressing, even shocking first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. While the topic of this episo...
2024-06-30 22:42:15 +0000 UTC View PostHas the Far Right Won in Europe? (w/ David Adler & David Broder)
We're joined by two experts on European politics to explain the EU parliamentary election results: David Adler, general co...
2024-06-28 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)
Something happened to America — and to American conservatism — in the early 1990s: an unspooling, a coarsening, a turn from substance to symbol and from narrative to fragment; prevailing politi...
2024-06-24 17:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostSeeking Your Input!
One constant since we started Know Your Enemy over five years ago has been the thoughtfulness and intelligence of you, our listeners. That should be clear if you read the comments on here, but it's...
2024-06-20 22:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement (w/ Neil J. Young)
In this special Pride Month episode of Know Your Enemy, Matt and Sam talk to historian Neil J. Young about his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right. His absorbing ac...
2024-06-17 17:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostWill the Trump Verdict Matter?
Matt and Sam break down the Trump guilty verdict—what happened during the trial, why the jury might have reached the decision they did, how Republicans and the right reacted, and the ways it all ...
2024-06-04 22:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhat Was the CIO? (w/ Tim Barker and Ben Mabie)
Historian Tim Barker and editor/organizer Ben Mabie join to talk about a thrilling episode in the history of American labor. Barker and Mabie are two of the hosts of 2024-05-26 22:10:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh)
Historian David Austin Walsh joins to discuss his excellent new book Taking America Back: The ...
2024-05-20 18:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Inconclusive Mr. Buckley
Matt and Sam gab about "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley," a new PBS documentary on William F. Buckley Jr., whi...
2024-05-05 14:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostAgainst Despair (w/ Christian Wiman)
This conversation is a little different. We wanted to take a break from the election-year political jousting to talk to the poet Christian Wiman about Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against De...
2024-04-27 21:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostWrite Like a Man (w/ Ronnie Grinberg)
Historian Ronnie Grinberg's new book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New ...
2024-04-17 02:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostArguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell
It was inevitable that Know Your Enemy would eventually discuss Arguing the World, the 1998 documentary about four Jewish intellectuals who emerged from the alcoves and arguments of City C...
2024-04-09 17:06:49 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor Swift Derangement Syndrome (w/ B.D. McClay)
Why are Republicans and the right losing their minds over Taylor Swift, the gifted songwriter and globe-bestriding pop star? Why do they think her NFL-playing, Super Bowl-winning boyfriend is secre...
2024-03-26 17:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostUNLOCKED: Keeping up with the Bozells
What can four generations of men named "L. Brent Bozell" tell us about the trajectory of modern American conservatism? Well, quite a lot. In this classic KYE bonus episode from
Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn)
The right's romance with odious foreign dictators didn't start with Putin or Viktor Orbán, and their profound contempt for democracy long predates January 6. In his new book, 2024-03-11 18:23:26 +0000 UTC View Post
A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux
Matt and Sam return to René Girard via Pope Francis—whom Matt personally met at a recent general audience at the Vatican, and whose homily at that audience addressed the problem of envy, and wha...
2024-03-04 16:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostRené Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)
The late René Girard, former Stanford professor of literature and mentor to Peter Thiel, is having something of a moment on the right these days—as Sam Kriss recently put it in a Harper's 2024-02-26 15:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Thinking the "Far Right"
Matt and Sam return to some historiographic questions from our episode with Kim Phillips-Fein — especially how to think the relationship between "right" and "far right" — and then discuss the t...
2024-02-11 16:23:14 +0000 UTC View Post