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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Feb 20241h 39min
Thinking the "Far Right" [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 some historiographic questions fro...
11 Feb 20244min
Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration
As listeners might have noticed, 2024 is a presidential election year, and already the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power is looming over the campaign and the media's coverage of it. In a sec...
30 Jan 20241h 26min
[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman)
Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemyJourneyman actor Peter Crombie, who appeared in films such...
26 Jan 20244min
