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 Mars 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 Mars 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
The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
When did the American conservative movement begin? Who were its chief protagonists? What were their main motivations? Is the conservative movement a social movement, like any other, or is it something...
17 Jan 20241h 6min
Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]
Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemyWriter Osita Nwanevu joins for a rip-roaring conversation ...
1 Jan 20243min
