The January 6th Committee Report
The boys discuss Matt's recent Dissent essay on the 845-page report of the "Select Comm...
2023-04-29 16:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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Matt reviews the January 6 Report in Dissent
Greetings KYE Patrons,
I wanted to share my new 2023-04-26 18:48:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida (w/ Gillian Branstetter)
Gillian Branstetter (of the ACLU's Women’s Rights Project and LGBTQ & HIV Project) returns to Know Your En...
2023-04-18 16:13:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhittaker Chambers, Redux (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
The great Sam Tanenhaus (author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography<...
2023-04-10 20:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostBob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)
"That’s the problem with a lot of things these days," wrote Bob Dylan in 2022, "Everything is too full now; we are spoon-fed everything. All songs are about one thing and one thing speci...
2023-04-04 21:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostOur Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (w/ Nichole M. Flores)
In the second (and final) of Matt's Lent-related conversations with theologians, he's joined by Dr. Nic...
2023-03-29 14:21:56 +0000 UTC View PostSam reviews a new book about the John Birch Society
Greetings Dearest Patrons -- I thought you all might enjoy this 2023-03-25 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Suffering, Solidarity, and Ritual (w/ Susan Bigelow Reynolds)
This conversation is the first of two that Matt recorded to be released during Lent, the forty-day season when Christians prepare for Easter Sunday by fasting and giving of their time and treasure ...
2023-03-20 15:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
In this episode, Matt and Sam go deep into the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, most famous for his role in the "trial of the century"—the trial of Alger Hiss for perjury after Chambers accu...
2023-03-12 19:57:07 +0000 UTC View PostLe Carré's Cold War (w/ Jamelle Bouie & John Ganz)
Jamelle Bouie (of the NYTimes) and John Ganz (of 2023-02-22 18:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Triumph of the Therapeutic (w/ Hannah Zeavin & Alex Colston)
Modern conservatives have long asked the following questions: how can we live together without God? Is there any substitute for religion in cohering a moral community? And if not, what can we do to...
2023-02-14 01:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostRealignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)
Early in Timothy Shenk's absorbing, provocative recent book, Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Vi...
2023-01-31 17:37:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Eyes of the Ranger (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
This episode is a little different. Rather than dissecting an influential conservative book written by long-dead intellectual, Matt and Sam are joined by Know Your Enemy's brilliant producer (and h...
2023-01-18 23:51:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Death of Pope Benedict XVI (w/ Michael O'Loughlin)
On Dec. 31, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died at the age of 95. A towering figure in the Catholic Church in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond—especially his decades helming the Va...
2023-01-08 17:41:49 +0000 UTC View PostJesus and Bob Dylan (w/ the Jokermen)
Happy New Year! In April 2022, Matt and Sam appeared on the excellent Jokermen podcast to discuss...
2023-01-02 18:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostJ. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage)
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI. In her authoritative new biography, 2022-12-19 23:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
More Questions, More Answers (Mailbag pt. 2)
Matt and Sam pick up where they left off in their recent mailbag episo...
2022-12-07 16:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostYou Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)
As the end of the year approaches, Matt and Sam are once again answering questions from you, their beloved listeners. Like previous mailbag episodes, there was an abundance of excellent questions t...
2022-12-01 00:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostMailbag Episode! Submit your questions...
Greetings dearest patrons,
We're planning another mailbag episode to close out November! Please submit your questions for Matt and Sam here, by message on Patreon, or by email at knowyo...
2022-11-23 14:36:10 +0000 UTC View PostHow Fetterman Won (w/ Joe Calvello)
This is episode is a little different. Listeners know that Matt and Sam have been following John Fetterman's run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania from the start, doing their 2022-11-11 22:22:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The Red Ripple (Midterm Debrief)
Matt and Sam recap and analyze the 2022 midterms — as we know them so far.
Why did Dems do so much better than we thought? Why did the GOP underperform? How cucked were the polls? How...
2022-11-09 23:55:25 +0000 UTC View PostNixon Agonistes
"What is best and weakest in America goes out to reciprocating strength and deficiencies in Richard Nixon." It's difficult to think of a more electric meeting of author and subject than Garry Wills...
2022-11-06 17:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostState of the States (w/ Aaron Kleinman)
With the midterms a week away, Sam talked to Aaron Kleinman of The States Project (aka 2022-10-31 16:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Why Conservatives Love Baseball (w/ David Roth)
At long last, an episode about baseball—America's national pastime, and a sport that conservatives in the United States seem to especially love. To understand baseball's appeal, both to conservat...
2022-10-17 18:50:43 +0000 UTC View PostGiorgia Meloni's Neo-Fascism (w/ David Broder)
Sam is joined by David Broder — the Europe editor of Jacobin Magazine and author of Fir...
2022-10-05 23:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostI Taught the Sheriff (w/ John Ganz)
KYE super guest John Ganz joins Matt and Sam for a characteristically spirited discussion of The Claremont Institute's "Sherif...
2022-09-23 20:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the Theocons (w/ Damon Linker)
Damon Linker is an idiosyncratic figure among political writers—trained by Straussians as a political philosopher, he's a former editor of First Things, the flagship publication for intellectual ...
2022-09-20 15:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostOn Barbara Ehrenreich (w/ Alex Press & Gabriel Winant)
This episode was unplanned, but when Barbara Ehrenreich died on September 1, 2022, we felt an urge to honor her memory and the profound influence she has had on the American left, socialism, femini...
2022-09-12 18:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostA Low, Dishonest Decade: The Right in the 1990s (w/ Nicole Hemmer)
In this episode, historian Nicole Hemmer returns to the show to discuss her new book,
Masters of War
Matt and Sam bring you the latest from the “caesarist” wing of the conservative movement, discussing two recent articles in the New York Times. The first: 2022-08-18 13:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post