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A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, one podcast episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
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Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History (w/ Benjamin Moser)
Benjamin Moser's provocative, exquisitely written new book, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770236/anti-zionism-by-benjamin-moser/), couldn't be a more timely intervention in debates over Israel, Zio
The End of the French Fifth Republic? (w/ Cole Stangler) [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) Many listeners will have seen the recent protests in France, protests that bega
Islamophobia in America, Then and Now (w/ Rozina Ali)
In this episode, we're joined by Rozina Ali for a conversation about Seasons of Fury (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672414/seasons-of-fury-by-rozina-ali/), her new book about the rise, persistence, and changing contours of Islamo
What Do Conservative Intellectuals Do? (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) In this episode we talk to our friend John Ganz about the nature and function o
The Post-MAGA Midterms? (w/ David Weigel)
Dave Weigel is a longtime favorite political reporter of ours—someone we've both read for years, and find unusually unblinkered by partisan loyalties—so we couldn't think of a better guide to the 2026 midterms elections than him. What every
Late-Stage Trumpism's Morbid Symptoms [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) A sundowning, octogenarian president radically out of step with the country's m
End Times Fascism (w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor)
This episode is a free-wheeling conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their superb (and superbly written) new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621407/endtimesf
Hitler, "The Lessons of History," and the Maw of Late-Stage Trumpism [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) In this conversation, Matt and Sam range widely, beginning with Sam's recent NY
The Pump and Dump Presidency (w/ Jacob Silverman)
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history, and it isn't close. Between his family's crypto business — designed to enable foreign oligarchs, criminals, and state actors to bribe the administration while enriching Trump a
MAGA’s Fight for Animal Rights (w/ Astra Taylor & Aaron Regunberg) [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) We talk to Astra Taylor and Aaron Regunberg about their recent New Republic art
The Long Struggle Against Equality in America (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
In this episode, we're pleased to welcome back historian Kim Phillips-Fein, one of the truly outstanding observers of the right, past and present, working today, for a conversation about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Soci
Conservatives in Disarray? [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) What is going on with the right? Why are they so mad at each other? What accoun
Archaeology and Annexation in Palestine (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
This episode begins by noting the proximity of two of the most significant events of the twentieth century, one archaeological, the other political: the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 and the founding of the modern State of Israe
UNLOCKED: Tucker Carlson and the Anti-Israel Right (w/ Peter Beinart)
This episode originally aired June 15, 2026 on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/knowyourenemy) — we're unlocking it for the rest of you. Author and Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart returns to "Know Your Enemy" to discuss Tuck
The Platner Ordeal (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry) [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) Matt and Sam are joined by their great friend Dorothy Fortenberry to discuss th
Gerontocracy in America (w/ Sam Moyn)
Lindsey Graham's death last week at 71 was as remarkable for the senator's relative "youth" as its possible political and electoral consequences, so much so that it actually prompted conspiracy theories about the precise nature of his passi
Why Patriotism [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) This conversation is something of a follow-up to our last episode (https://podc
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
We're ringing in the 250th anniversary of the United States with an episode on Garry Wills's superb, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1992 book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade the America (https://books.google.com/books/about/Lincoln_at
The Left Ascendant in New York City [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) In this episode we break down the results from last week's Democratic primaries
Pope Leo XIV's 'Magnifica humanitas' (w/ Jack Hanson)
As promised, here is our episode about Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, in which he brings to bear Catholic social teaching on the perils of artificial intelligence and what they reveal about what it really means to be
Tucker Carlson and the Anti-Israel Right (w/ Peter Beinart) [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) Author and Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart returns to "Know Your
Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History (w/ Matt Dinan)
Pull up a chair and pour yourself a drink! For the third installment in our occasional series on important conservative books, or important books written by or embraced by conservatives, we take up Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History (h
Know Your Enemy, Live! (w/ Mike Duncan) [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) Last month, on May 14th, we were joined by nearly 800 listeners in New York Cit
Military Education and American Manhood (w/ Jasper Craven)
In this episode we have a conversation with reporter Jasper Craven about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/God-Forgive
Even More Listener Questions, Answered [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) As always, listeners asked more mailbag questions than we could respond to in o
The Seven Year Anniversary Mailbag Episode
Not only was May 6th the seven-year anniversary of Know Your Enemy, an occasion to celebrate your support of our work, but it's been nearly a year since we last opened the mailbag and answered listener questions. As always, we loved thinkin
Reasons To Believe [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) REMINDER: COME SEE KYE x MIKE DUNCAN LIVE IN NYC (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
Over the course of the past year, Peter Thiel—the Trump backing, Vance boosting gay tech billionaire—has been delivering a series of lectures on the Antichrist, using an examination of the Biblical antagonist of the End Times to make an arg
The Pope and the President [Teaser]
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) Once more we take up religion and politics, this time a conversation about Pres
The Bund: Fighting Fascism, Fighting Zionism (w/ Molly Crabapple)
In 1897, a small group of Jewish Marxists on the outskirts of the Russian empire founded the General Jewish Labour Bund. The Bundists were revolutionary socialists, unapologetic internationalists, champions of the Yiddish language, and impl
