Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)
Matt and Sam's first ever guest, Patrick Blanchfield, is an Associate Faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and author of the forthcoming book Gunpower from Verso books, which y...
15 Elo 20191h 29min
The Definitely-Not-Racist National Conservatives
The first National Conservatism conference was convened at the Ritz Carlton in Washington D.C. two weeks ago. It was a coming out party for the rising nationalist wing of the conservative movement, wi...
30 Heinä 20191h 37min
The Rise of the Illiberal Right
Interested in the background reading we did for this episode? There's a lot of it. But we want to show our work and give you the chance to dig deeper. Below are the articles we referenced, read, or dr...
12 Heinä 20191h 18min
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)
Special thanks to Will Epstein and The Downtown Boys for providing music for these two episodes. Check them out. Ronald Reagan's televised "A Time for Choosing" speech in support of Barry Goldwater in...
26 Kesä 20191h 1min
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1)
Sam Tanenhaus's original 2009 essay in The New Republic, the basis for the book we're discussing today: https://newrepublic.com/article/61721/conservatism-dead Whitaker Chambers's 1957 dismantling of ...
12 Kesä 20191h 1min
How Conservatives Argue
In episode two of KNOW YOUR ENEMY, Matt and Sam discuss economist Albert O. Hirschman's 1991 book The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. Along the way, they identify the persistent...
16 Touko 20191h 17min
Behind Enemy Lines
Read Matt's Dissent essay, "Leaving Conservatism Behind" Read Sam's essay about Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West, "The Remnant and the Restless Crowd"
7 Touko 20191h 1min
