
Macron vs. Le Pen (w/ Cole Stangler)
Did this week's one-on-one debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen change the race in any significant ways? Why is Le Pen drawing notably more support this time around than she did in 2017? H...
22 Huhti 20222min

The Other Side of the Story (w/ Michael Kazin)
Matt and Sam are joined by Georgetown University historian and co-editor emeritus of Dissent, Michael Kazin, to discuss his new book, What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. They discu...
13 Huhti 20221h 4min

TEASER: Compact with the Devil? (w/ John Ganz)
Matt and Sam are joined by KYE all-star John Ganz to discuss Compact: A Radical American Journal, a new publication founded by Sohrab Ahmari, Matthew Schmitz, and Edward Aponte. It's launch coincided ...
9 Huhti 20221min

Red Diaper Baby (w/ Ari Brostoff)
Matt and Sam are joined by Ari Brostoff, author of Missing Time: Essays, to explore David Horowitz's 1996 memoir, Radical Son. Like a number of prominent conservatives, Horowitz is a convert from the...
30 Maalis 20221h 30min

The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter)
Matt and Sam talk to Gillian Branstetter, press secretary for the National Women’s Law Center, about the spate of anti-trans laws sweeping the country: What do these interventions do? Who is pushing ...
20 Maalis 20221h 25min

TEASER: Disinformation, Peter Thiel, and the Vibe Shift (w/ Joe Bernstein)
In the first half of this conversation with Buzzfeed’s Joe Bernstein, Sam asks: What is “disinformation?” Who gets to decide? And does it explain what's wrong with our politics? And in the second half...
11 Maalis 20223min

A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
The past few months have seen much talk of a "second Civil War" in the United States or a "national divorce" between red states and blue states. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joins Matt and S...
7 Maalis 20221h 24min

Mothers of Conservatism (w/ Michelle Nickerson)
Matt and Sam talk to Michelle Nickerson about her brilliant book, Mothers of Conservatism, which explores the lives and political activism of conservative women in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s an...
27 Helmi 20221h 11min





















