Matt and Sam dedicate an entire episode to an under appreciated but indispensable figure in the founding of post-war conservatism: Frank Meyer, the father of "fusionism."
Meyer was a ma...
2021-11-10 23:40:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam talk to the Washington Post's David Weigel about his approach to reporting on American politics, left and right, and what he's learned during his travels across the country. 2021-10-29 15:15:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz to unpack the American Right's ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán's Hungary, from Rod Dreher's springtime junket there to...
2021-10-25 19:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post
(Posting this main episode over here on the Patreon feed because we forgot to last week! Love you guys! - Team KYE)
Matt is joined by Know Your Enemy favorite Sarah Jones to discuss her recen...
2021-10-22 13:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam are joined by a very special guest—the 5-4 podcast's Rhiannon—to discuss the ghastly anti-abortion bill that recently went into affect in Texas after the Supreme Court fai...
2021-09-30 15:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In this subscribers-only episode, Matt and Sam discuss the latest revelations about the Trumpist plot to steal the presidency, the madness of anti-vaxx derangement syndrome among conservatives, and...
2021-09-25 19:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It's impossible to comprehend the state of conservative politics — or American politics in general — without looking closely at the wars we've been waging for the past two decades. The story we...
2021-09-15 19:06:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a slightly different kind of Know Your Enemy episode—a conversation about hope and despair as the effects of climate change bear down upon us. At the center of that conversation is a bril...
2021-09-03 00:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Join Matt and Sam as they drink bourbon and talk about Ronald (and Nancy) Reagan. They begin with Matt's history as a young conservative who researched multiple books on Reagan and eventually get t...
2021-08-30 21:34:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, a deep-dive on William F. Buckley, Jr.! Matt and Sam are joined by Buckley's biographer, Sam Tanenhaus, to talk about WFB's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York City. Topics include: how Bu...
2021-08-23 18:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam discuss "Woke Capital," the revival of James Burnham's critique of managerialism, and how right-wing populists learned to stop worrying (about liberty) and love the state.
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2021-07-31 17:32:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam are back in the same room — Matt's study — enjoying brown liquor, each other's company, and a surprisingly coherent discussion of the right's latest fixations: our "rainbow r...
2021-06-30 16:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Every June it happens: conservatives get all hot and bothered by Pride celebrations, and this year has been no different. Why do banal corporate expressions of support for LGBTQ+ rights drive them ...
2021-06-14 03:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the status of "equality" in the American political tradition? What place does it have in the inheritance that conservatives are trying to preserve?
Matt and Sam pick up whe...
2021-05-29 23:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Matt is joined by historian Eric Rauchway for a deep-dive into his new book, ...
2021-04-29 19:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are unleashing a fierce assault on voting rights. Hundreds of proposals aimed at restricting ballot access are being considered, and in a few s...
2021-04-14 00:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam finally take on a controversial subject: the British royal family. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's recent interview with Oprah set off a firestorm of commentary—not least from aggri...
2021-03-21 20:44:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In recent months, French president Emmanuel Macron, once hailed as the savior of mainstream liberalism, has responded to a series of Islamist terror attacks with a sharp right turn—one he hopes w...
2021-03-14 00:50:56 +0000 UTC View Post
What can four generations of men named "L. Brent Bozell" tell us about the trajectory of modern American conservatism? Well, quite a lot.
From the union-busting, ad-man scion (Brent Sr....
2021-02-27 01:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Beloved KYE guest John Ganz (Ep. 15: The Year the Clock Broke...
2021-02-06 00:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam explain West Coast Straussianism, the school of thought behind one of the last acts of the Trump administration: the release of 2021-01-23 21:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam respond to a mob of Trump supporters stopping the certification of Electoral College votes by charging into the Senate and House chambers. It was an unprecedented act that struck at th...
2021-01-07 05:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Sam speaks with historian Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Bi...
2020-12-26 17:15:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by new conservative-ish frenemy of the pod, Aaron Sibarium — a bright, young, bushy-tailed editor at the Washington Free Beacon — for a post-electio...
2020-12-06 03:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
A 2020 election recap with two brilliant friends of the pod: Eric Levitz, a senior writer at New...
2020-11-14 22:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam engage in the most perilous of all punditry—the rankest of rank punditry, even—and discuss what to expect on Election Night. They crunch the numbers, discuss the possible scenarios...
2020-11-02 23:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite Sam's misgivings, Matt managed to convinced us (Sam) to do a quick response to the stupid fucking debate. As it turns out, he had some interesting things to say. Enjoy.
2020-10-23 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This past Sunday, October 18, 2020, the Movement for Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia — the party led by Evo Morales — was returned to power by a landslide victory, after having been deposed by anti-...
2020-10-23 04:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Well. We watched it. And we recorded an episode of our podcast about it. For you. Because we love you.
Matt and Sam do a deep dive on the proposals being discussed about the ways that Democrats can take on the Supreme Court. Should a Democratic President and Senate pack the Court, or seek to disempo...
2020-09-25 19:07:11 +0000 UTC View Post