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Misogyny, MAGA-style [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, our very own Sam Adler-Bell published a deeply reported article (ht
From Neocon to Never-Trump (w/ Bill Kristol)
There’s perhaps no living person who better embodies the themes, contradictions, ethos, and pathos of “Know Your Enemy” than William Kristol, this week’s guest. Today, Kristol is editor-at-large of The Bulwark (https://substack.com/@william
James Talarico and the Politics of Progressive Christianity [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 shift our attention from the Trump administration to the wi
Trump's War Against Iran (w/ Matt Duss)
On February 28, both the United States and Israel attacked Iran, killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation's Supreme Leader, along with other political leaders and government officials, destroying various military targets, and bombing a gi
Standing Athwart History, Yelling "Slop!" (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) On Monday, Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo posted this: "The Right's coll
Leaving MAGA Behind (w/ Pedro L. Gonzalez)
When people break with MAGA, most of them walk away and don't look back, whether out of shame or fear or both. So it's a rare thing to talk with someone willing to describe publicly why they joined the Trump movement, what life was like on
'Shattered Glass,' Journalism, & the End of History [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 episode is about Shattered Glass, the 2003 movie portraying former New Rep
Tucker Carlson's Phases & Stages (w/ Jason Zengerle)
Finally, an episode about Tucker Carlson—and at an auspicious time, as his influence on the right seems only to have grown in the first year of Trump's second term. To help us understand him, we turned to journalist Jason Zengerle, who firs
On the Ground in Minneapolis (w/ Lydia Polgreen) [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) The shocking execution of Alex Pretti occurred after we recorded our last episo
The Donroe Doctrine (w/ David Adler & Matt Kirkegaard)
Last week, all eyes were on Davos as President Trump unfurled his deranged desire to buy or take Greenland from Denmark—just weeks after the United States kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and Trump asserted the so-called "Donro
The Killing of Renee Good [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 discuss the January 7 killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis by an I
January 6, Five Years Later (w/ Robert Draper)
For years now on Know Your Enemy, we've taken the January 6, 2021 insurrection as a glimpse of Trumpism unbound—not a few naive Q-anon types and tourists bumbling around, and not an excuse to be blackmailed into voting for Democrats, but a
Great Books and the AI Apocalypse (w/ Matt Dinan) [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 were excited to record and share this conversation with Matt Dinan, a profes
UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)
This episode originally aired November 17, 2025 on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy) — we're unlocking it as a holiday treat. If there's a Trump-era topic that manages to fascinate without being entirely depressing, it's proba
What We Got Wrong (and Right) about the Right in 2025 [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 the end of the year approaches, we wanted to look back at another year of tr
One Podcast After Another (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
Given the not-terribly-uplifting streak of episodes we've had lately, we thought it was time for a Know Your Enemy movie night, and were joined by the podcast's intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, for a conversation about Paul Thomas Anders
On Friendship (w/ Andy Elrick)
Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/107982813?utm_campaign=postshare_creator) Should you try to improve your friends or leave them be? Do friendship and poli
The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field)
Laura K. Field's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255262/furious-minds?srsltid=AfmBOoo-r7SOZaW2FHnmgy0k1VNHmckDW4PoIz4Xd3C7Yi30f3kf1wnF), published earlier this month, is a
Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [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) If there's a Trump-era topic that manages to fascinate without being entirely d
Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza (w/ Peter Beinart)
This episode isn't focused on a single topic or text, but rather just wanting to have a wide-ranging conversation with our guest, Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents and author of the recent book, Being Jewish After the Destru
Break Glass in Case of Emergency
This is a different kind of episode than is typical; there's no book, no central text, not even a single, central event that guides the conversation. Instead, we begin with a few recent news items—speculation about Trump 2028, Speaker Mike
Command + F + Hitler [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) The theme of this rank punditry episode is Getting in Trouble on the Internet,
How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era
This episode is the second in our occasional series on important, controversial, or unusually relevant conservative texts from the recent past. Here we take up Charles Murray's 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.
How To Give A Damn [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) Before embarking on a spirited bout of rank punditry, we take a step back and t
Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
To try to understand both the power and strangeness of the Charlie Kirk memorial—one part evangelical worship service, one part MAGA rally—we turned, of course, to our friend Pat Blanchfield. All three of us stewed in the event's footage, w
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk [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) The assassination of Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2
The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu)
Since the start of the Trump Era over a decade ago, few words have been deployed as often as "democracy": how it's become imperiled, who threatens it, and what to do to defend it. In The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New
An Officer and a Spy (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) Roman Polanski's 2019 film about the Dreyfus affair, An Officer and a Spy (http
Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism (w/ Daniel J. Flynn)
Devoted Know Your Enemy listeners will recall that, in November 2021, we released a fairly dense, theory-driven episode on Frank Meyer (https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/frank-meyer-father-of-fusionism-1pjOllfS), the
The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [Unlocked]
This episode was first published in October 2024, and has been un-paywalled following the death this week, on August 21, of Focus on the Family founder and influential figure on the religious right, James Dobson (https://www.nytimes.com/202
