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The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang)
A major topic following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that's scrambled many people's assumptions about American politics, not least those of anti-racis
From Armageddon to Zionism — More Listener Questions [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) Our mailbag runneth over! Unsurprisingly, we received so many excellent questio
Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? — And Other Questions
It's been nearly a year since we asked our subscribers to send us questions for a mailbag episode—which they did, with remarkable thoughtfulness and intelligence, for our 100th episode (https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episod
Trump's Epstein Problem [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) Over July 4th weekend, the Department of Justice and FBI put out a memo essenti
How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked]
This episode from January 2025 has been un-paywalled for your summer enjoyment... A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking about American decline—often making direct comparisons between the Goth invaders
Zohran! (w/ Waleed Shahid) [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 don't do too many New York City-focused episodes on Know Your Enemy, but Zoh
A Complicated Man: William F. Buckley, Jr. (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
This episode is one that Matt and Sam have been anticipating for years: after two-and-a-half decades of research and writing, Sam Tanehaus's authoritative biography of William F. Buckley, Jr.—youthful booster of America First, enfant terrib
MAGA's War Over the War with Iran (w/ Curt Mills) [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) Donald Trump's rise in U.S. politics over the past decade has been inextricable
Immigration Showdown in LA (w/ E. Tammy Kim) [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) Journalist Tammy Kim joins the pod to talk about the anti-ICE protests in Los A
Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [UNLOCKED]
As the world falls apart — and we prep for our Buckley mega-episode with Sam Tanenhaus — we're unlocking this fun episode from late last year. Subscribe at Patreon.com/knowyourenemy (https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy) to never miss an e
Joe Biden's Betrayal [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 you pay any attention at all to political news, it's been hard to avoid Jake
Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights
Attentive listeners will notice that this episode is about a book but isn't an author interview. That's because it's the first in a new occasional series of episodes that will be dedicated to books by conservative writers that we think are
Trump as Messianic Prophet (w/ Manvir Singh) [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 a recent New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-
Did Podcasters Make Trump President? (w/ Andrew Marantz)
Among the many factors credited for Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race was one that, naturally, the hosts of Know Your Enemy took an interest in: podcasts. More specifically, "bro" podcasts—think Joe Rog
Conclave (2024) (w/ Brandon Taylor) [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) With the papal conclave convening in Rome to pick Pope Francis's successor, Mat
The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn (w/ In Bed with the Right)
Recently Matt joined Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub of the excellent In Bed with the Right (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-bed-with-the-right/id1696774612) podcast to record what turned out to be two episodes about Roy Cohn—the "la
The Meaning of Pope Francis
The passing of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025 marked not just the end of a papacy but the end of an era in global politics. The moment in which Francis spoke before Congress a decade ago and identified Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Martin
The Madness of Trump’s Tariffs (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) Speaking in the Rose Garden on April 2, or as he called it, "Liberation Day," Pr
UNLOCKED: How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells)
In response to several requests from our (wonderful) Patreon subscribers, we're unlocking this episode from behind the paywall. Consider subscribing at Patreon.com/KnowYourEnemy (https://www.patreon.com/c/knowyourenemy) to never miss an epi
How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells) [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 month marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the Unite
Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two
If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now)
Becoming Elon Musk, Part One
If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now)
"Exit From Within" (August 2022)
Here's something a little creepy. In a bonus episode from August 2022, Matt and Sam were discussing Sam's profile of Arizona Senate hopeful and Peter Thiel-protégé Blake Masters when we found ourselves imagining how a future union of MAGA n
How Bad Is It? [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) Just over a month into Trump's second term, Matt and Sam offer their thoughts on
Pay Attention! (w/ Chris Hayes)
We're all anxious, and none of us can pay attention. We don't read long books anymore; our kids don't read at all. When we watch TV, we scroll at the same time. And we absolutely cannot be alone with ourselves. These are the symptoms of a m
MAGA x DOGE, So Far (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) The first three weeks of Donald Trump's second administration have seen a flurry
Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)
An atheist, a radical for capitalism, a caricature of a greedy libertarian, a best-selling novelist, a difficult partner and passionate lover, and the self-proclaimed greatest philosopher since Aristotle: Ayn Rand was many things, and we ta
How Republics End (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) A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking abo
The Entrepreneurial Ethic & How We Work Today (w/ Erik Baker)
This is a fascinating episode that takes up thinkers that the podcast has covered before—the Koch brothers, Austrian economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and others—but from a different angle: that of the entrepreneurial wo
UNLOCKED: Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport)
A bunch of you requested that we un-paywall this recent bonus episode, which features some highly practical insights for organizers, volunteers, and public servants. So we have! (All the other bonus episodes are good too; please subscribe.)
