Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
Here it is—the mailbag episode. Recorded on 4/20 and celebrating a full year of Know Your Enemy, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about: conservatives hiding in plain sight, our favorite conserv...
4 Mai 20201h 24min
The Windbag City (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)
Matt and Sam are finally joined by the show's longtime bête noire, Marshall Steinbaum, for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the wreckage it's supported—from welcoming the birth def...
18 Apr 20201h 49min
KYE Extra: "Last Ounce of Courage"
Our rollicking conversation with Know Your Enemy Film Correspondent Jesse Brenneman is now out from behind the paywall! Be prepared: we dive into Darrel Campbell's 2012 war-on-Christmas fever dream La...
5 Apr 20201h 34min
The Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)
Matt and Sam talk to John Ganz about paleoconservatism, the Island of the Misfit Toys of the American right. Along the way we're introduced to David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and others, and di...
15 Mar 20201h 59min
Morbid Symptoms (w/ Ross Douthat)
Ross Douthat is that strangest of all creatures, a religious conservative with a New York Times column—a perch from which he pronounces on U.S. politics, the Catholic Church, and modern culture with s...
5 Feb 20201h 26min
What Happened to Norman? (w/ David Klion)
Making It is Norman Podhoretz's 1967 memoir about his journey from the working-class neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn to his heady ascent in the New York literary scene of 1950s and '60s. It's al...
15 Jan 20201h 44min
She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)
Matt and Sam talk to Rebecca Traister of New York magazine about sexism and electoral politics. How has patriarchy conditioned the political careers of politicians like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth W...
28 Nov 20191h 29min
We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery)
Will Arbery's play "Heroes of the Fourth Turning"—about four conservative Catholic friends arguing under a night sky in Wyoming—feels like it was written to be discussed on Know Your Enemy. An ominous...
11 Nov 20192h 8min
