Matt and Sam do their duty and explain what happened at the Republican National Convention—and what it revealed about Trump's grip on the GOP and his prospects for re-election. Forgive us ou...
2020-09-01 18:26:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam breakdown the rightwing assaults on the United States Postal Service—and find it to be an emblematic crisis of Trump's presidency. What does it say not just about Trump but the force...
2020-08-29 00:19:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Depressive Left strikes again: in an episode that's more fun than it sounds, Matt and Sam discuss the relationship between depression and politics, the concept of moral desert in liberal and co...
2020-07-25 14:03:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam do a deep-dive on the 2015 documentary, Best of Enemies, about Gore Vidal and William F. Bu...
2020-06-27 20:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus episode, Matt and Sam think about thinking, with help from George Scialabba, CLR James, Irving Howe, and Lionel Trilling. How do intellectuals virtues like skepticism and doubt figure...
2020-06-16 18:19:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Our old friend Rusty Reno got extremely upset (while extremely online) about the cowardly, godless injunction to wear a mask in public. Then he rage quit twitter.
Thankfully, Matt, a true Ren...
2020-05-27 22:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
For you, our loyal subscribers, some additional material from our mailbag episode, including the long awaited official Know Your Enemy position on Bob Dylan.
Enjoy!
2020-05-05 01:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dissent hosted us for a discussion of the special section we edited for their Spring Issue (which you can read ...
2020-04-22 16:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by writer and editor Shuja Haider to discuss a topic near and dear to all of your hearts: country music. We talk country's conservative reputation, the problem with Ke...
2020-04-02 15:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We welcome Know Your Enemy Film Correspondent Jesse Brenneman on the show to discuss a true marvel of the medium, Darrel Campbell's 2012 war-on-Christmas fever dream LAST OUNCE OF ...
2020-03-27 15:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostMore degenerate punditry from the KYE 2020 Election Desk. We respond to last night's debate in South Carolina, and ask: Did Bernie win? Will Bloomberg survive another evisceration by Liz Warr...
2020-02-26 18:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We stayed up to respond to the results of the New Hampshire primary (Bernie won) and tried to shed some light on what this all means. Enjoy!
Cited:
Matthew Y...
2020-02-12 09:52:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam break out the good stuff for a late-night, in-depth discussion of Christopher Hitchens, the hot-take economy, and how to be a person. (There's a few minutes of Democratic Primary shopt...
2020-01-30 18:34:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We reflect on our first year-ish of Know Your Enemy! Including: A report from the front of Matt's ongoing posting war with the illiberal right. Our thoughts on Ross Douthat's Bernie-sympathetic NYT...
2019-12-25 18:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
What forces are shaping right-wing electoral politics in Europe? How have far-right parties evolved in response to Brexit? Can the European Union be a force for good?
All these...
2019-11-15 18:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Sam interviews journalist Hannah Gais about (1) the far right's ongoing efforts to infiltrate conservative media and (2) the self-victimizing grift of Quillette anti-anti-fascist Andy Ngo....
2019-10-10 15:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first few episodes of Know Your Enemy, we enjoyed threading thematically appropriate songs into the episodes. Then a friend (wisely) advised us against using copyrighted music on the ...
2019-10-01 09:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Or really two weeks ago in right-wing meltdowns.... (Sam is entirely to blame for the tardiness of this episode, but it's a good one!) We discuss: Epstein (a little), the New York Times's bed bug p...
2019-09-15 22:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and Sam recap some juicy happenings from ONLINE (aka "dispatches from the posting wars") and then philosophize about friendship and mercy.
Just a freewheeling conversation from you...
2019-08-18 18:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Let there be premium content. We offer you even more analysis of the not-in-the-least-bit-fascist National Conservatism Conference! We discuss speeches by:
- Rusty Reno, the editor of First T...
2019-08-01 16:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post