Against 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 Despair, ...
27 Huhti 20241h 8min
"Write Like a Man" (w/ Ronnie Grinberg)
Historian Ronnie Grinberg's new book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals couldn't be better "Know Your Enemy" fodder. (Main characters include: Midge Decter and Norman ...
17 Huhti 20241h 16min
Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser]
Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy It was inevitable that Know Your Enemy would eventually d...
9 Huhti 20243min
Taylor 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 secretly...
26 Maalis 20241h 18min
UNLOCKED: 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 February 2021, newly un...
19 Maalis 20241h 34min
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, America Last: The Right's...
11 Maalis 20241h 26min
A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]
Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Matt and Sam return to René Girard via Pope Francis—whom ...
4 Maalis 20242min
René 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 essay, Girar...
26 Helmi 20241h 39min
