TEASER: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)
Hope for the American left is at a fairly low ebb, at the moment, but our counterparts in Latin America are on the march and succeeding at beating back repressive right wing governments across the reg...
15 Maj 20221min
The Conservative and the Convict (w/ Sarah Weinman)
Sarah Weinman's new book—Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free—is a gripping true crime story, and perha...
9 Maj 20221h 27min
The Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabriel Winant)
Since Donald Trump was elected president — partially on the strength of white working class support in the Rust Belt — we've heard that the GOP is a working class party; that liberals sold out America...
30 Apr 20221h 31min
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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mars 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 Mars 20221h 25min
