Know Your Enemy

By Matthew Sitman

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Subscribers: 1330
Reviews: 16
Episodes: 164

Just a BSc
 Nov 15, 2023
Love to just be a fly on the wall even though I only know what they're talking about less than half the time😅 I agreed with other reviewers that they're at their best when sermonizing.


 Aug 25, 2023
Hashing it out with fascists isn't as valuable as they think it is


 May 8, 2023


 Jan 1, 2023


 Sep 12, 2022
too willing to hear out unserious people

Description

A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, one podcast episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.

Episode Date
"Write Like a Man" (w/ Ronnie Grinberg)
Apr 17, 2024
Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser]
Apr 09, 2024
Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome (w/ B.D. McClay)
Mar 26, 2024
UNLOCKED: Keeping Up with the Bozells
Mar 19, 2024
Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn)
Mar 11, 2024
A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]
Mar 04, 2024
René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)
Feb 26, 2024
Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]
Feb 11, 2024
Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration
Jan 30, 2024
[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman)
Jan 26, 2024
The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
Jan 17, 2024
Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]
Jan 01, 2024
Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)
Dec 19, 2023
Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times (w/ Jennifer Burns)
Dec 03, 2023
Anarcho-Capitalism in Argentina? (w/ David Adler) [TEASER]
Nov 22, 2023
The Kennedy Imprisonment (w/ Jeet Heer)
Nov 17, 2023
More Questions, More Answers [Teaser]
Nov 04, 2023
Your Questions, Answered
Oct 28, 2023
In Search of Anti-Semitism (w/ John Ganz)
Oct 13, 2023
House of Pain (w/ Eric Levitz) [Teaser]
Oct 07, 2023
The Debate, the Donald, and the Strike [Teaser]
Sep 30, 2023
Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL (w/ Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, & Peter Beinart)
Sep 26, 2023
Reading the Trump Indictments [Teaser]
Sep 19, 2023
What the Cold War Did to Liberalism (w/ Samuel Moyn)
Sep 05, 2023
The First 2024 GOP Presidential Debate [TEASER]
Aug 24, 2023
The Hochman Affair
Aug 21, 2023
Grateful Dead Conservatives (w/ Sophie Haigney) [TEASER]
Aug 11, 2023
Midge Decter: Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior (w/ Moira Donegan & Adrian Daub)
Jul 27, 2023
TEASER: Sin and Salvation in the Righteous Gemstones (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
Jul 21, 2023
Legal Trouble
Jul 17, 2023
Impossible Professions: Freud and Janet Malcolm (ft. Patrick Blanchfield & Abby Kluchin)
Jul 06, 2023
Grow Up, Men (w/ Phil Christman) [TEASER]
Jun 30, 2023
The Prayers and Prophecies of Pat Robertson [TEASER]
Jun 17, 2023
What's Wrong With Men?
Jun 05, 2023
The 2024 Race: "It's Showtime, Folks!" (TEASER)
May 18, 2023
"Succession," "Extrapolations," and TV Writing Today (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery)
May 04, 2023
TEASER: The January 6th Committee Report
Apr 29, 2023
Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida (w/ Gillian Branstetter)
Apr 18, 2023
TEASER: Whittaker Chambers, Redux (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
Apr 10, 2023
Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)
Apr 04, 2023
TEASER: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (w/ Nichole M. Flores)
Mar 29, 2023
TEASER: Suffering, Solidarity, and Ritual (w/ Susan Bigelow Reynolds)
Mar 20, 2023
Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
Mar 12, 2023
Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)
Feb 27, 2023
TEASER: Le Carre's Cold War (w/ Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz)
Feb 22, 2023
Triumph of the Therapeutic (w/ Hannah Zeavin & Alex Colston)
Feb 13, 2023
TEASER: Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)
Jan 31, 2023
The Eyes of the Ranger (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
Jan 18, 2023
TEASER: The Death of Pope Benedict XVI (w/ Michael O'Loughlin)
Jan 08, 2023
Jesus and Bob Dylan (w/ the Jokermen)
Dec 26, 2022
J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage)
Dec 19, 2022
TEASER: More Mail, More Bag
Dec 07, 2022
You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)
Dec 01, 2022
How Fetterman Won (w/ Joe Calvello)
Nov 11, 2022
TEASER: The Red Ripple (Midterm Debrief)
Nov 10, 2022
Nixon Agonistes
Nov 06, 2022
TEASER: State of the States (w/ Aaron Kleinman)
Oct 31, 2022
Why Conservatives Love Baseball (w/ David Roth)
Oct 17, 2022
TEASER: Giorgia Meloni's Neo-Fascism (w/ David Broder)
Oct 06, 2022
TEASER: I Taught the Sheriff (w/ John Ganz)
Sep 24, 2022
After the Theocons (w/ Damon Linker)
Sep 20, 2022
On Barbara Ehrenreich (w/ Alex Press & Gabriel Winant)
Sep 12, 2022
A Low, Dishonest Decade: The Right in the 1990s (w/ Nicole Hemmer)
Aug 31, 2022
TEASER: Blake Masters + Claremont
Aug 18, 2022
Christopher Lasch's Critique of Progress (w/ Chris Lehmann)
Aug 11, 2022
TEASER: Far-Right Vanguard (w/ John S. Huntington)
Jul 30, 2022
Up From Straussianism (w/ Matt McManus & Victor Bruzzone)
Jul 17, 2022
How They Did It, Pt. 3: The End of the Beginning
Jun 30, 2022
The State of the American Right (w/ Daniel Denvir)
Jun 22, 2022
How They Did It, Pt. 2: The Christian Right and Roe
Jun 16, 2022
How They Did It: Overturning Roe, Pt. 1 (w/ the 5-4 podcast)
May 28, 2022
UNLOCKED: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)
May 25, 2022
TEASER: Yinzer Country
May 21, 2022
TEASER: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)
May 15, 2022
The Conservative and the Convict (w/ Sarah Weinman)
May 09, 2022
The Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabriel Winant)
Apr 30, 2022
Macron vs. Le Pen (w/ Cole Stangler)
Apr 22, 2022
The Other Side of the Story (w/ Michael Kazin)
Apr 13, 2022
TEASER: Compact with the Devil? (w/ John Ganz)
Apr 09, 2022
Red Diaper Baby (w/ Ari Brostoff)
Mar 30, 2022
The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter)
Mar 20, 2022
TEASER: Disinformation, Peter Thiel, and the Vibe Shift (w/ Joe Bernstein)
Mar 11, 2022
A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
Mar 07, 2022
Mothers of Conservatism (w/ Michelle Nickerson)
Feb 27, 2022
TEASER: How To Be Normal (w/ Phil Christman)
Feb 17, 2022
School Wars (w/ Jennifer Berkshire)
Jan 28, 2022
TEASER: Cancel Jay Caspian Kang (w/ Jay Caspian Kang)
Jan 21, 2022
Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
Jan 13, 2022
UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Jan 04, 2022
Hindsight is 2021
Dec 22, 2021
Young, Radical, and on the Right (w/ Nate Hochman)
Dec 15, 2021
TEASER: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Dec 01, 2021
Retvrn of the National Conservatives
Nov 25, 2021
TEASER: I Am The GooseKing (w/ Ben Firke)
Nov 15, 2021
Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism
Nov 10, 2021
TEASER: Reporting for Duty (w/ Dave Weigel)
Oct 29, 2021
The American Right's Hungary Hearts (w/ Lauren Stokes and John Ganz)
Oct 25, 2021
God, Death, and the Pandemic (w/ Sarah Jones)
Oct 16, 2021
TEASER: The Texas Bounty Hunter Bill (w/ 5-4's Rhiannon)
Sep 30, 2021
TEASER: Coup, Covid, Congress
Sep 25, 2021
Twenty Years of Terror (w/ Spencer Ackerman)
Sep 15, 2021
Living at the End of Our World (w/ Daniel Sherrell & Dorothy Fortenberry)
Sep 02, 2021
TEASER: Where's the Rest of Him?
Aug 30, 2021
Buckley for Mayor (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
Aug 23, 2021
KYE Presents: 5-4 on Connick v. Thompson
Aug 07, 2021
TEASER: Woke Capital
Jul 31, 2021
After Nationalism (w/ Samuel Goldman)
Jul 28, 2021
The Afterlife of January 6th
Jul 19, 2021
UNLOCKED: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway)
Jul 04, 2021
TEASER: How (Not) to Talk About Racism
Jun 30, 2021
Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow
Jun 21, 2021
TEASER: Hot and Bothered
Jun 14, 2021
TEASER: Jaffa vs. Kendall
May 29, 2021
The Enemy Within (w/ Brandy Jensen)
May 24, 2021
The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)
May 18, 2021
UNLOCKED: Democracy and Its Discontents
May 05, 2021
TEASER: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway)
Apr 30, 2021
Overheated (w/ Kate Aronoff)
Apr 23, 2021
TEASER: Democracy and Its Discontents
Apr 14, 2021
KYE Film Club: A Lost Cause (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
Mar 30, 2021
TEASER: A Royal Mess
Mar 21, 2021
TEASER: France's War on Terror (w/ Cole Stangler)
Mar 14, 2021
The Rush Limbaugh Show (w/ Nicole Hemmer)
Mar 09, 2021
TEASER: Keeping up with the Bozells
Feb 27, 2021
How to Survive a Pandemic (w/ Peter Staley)
Feb 22, 2021
UNLOCKED: Midnight in the Garden of American Heroes
Feb 11, 2021
TEASER: L'Affaire (w/ John Ganz)
Feb 06, 2021
Panic! In America (w/ the You're Wrong About podcast)
Feb 01, 2021
TEASER: West Coast Straussians and the "1776 Report"
Jan 23, 2021
Did It Happen Here?
Jan 17, 2021
TEASER: Storming the Capitol
Jan 07, 2021
Masks Off: The Right in 2020
Jan 04, 2021
TEASER: Trump the Dove? (w/ Stephen Wertheim)
Dec 26, 2020
Why the Supreme Court Sucks (w/ the 5-4 podcast)
Dec 21, 2020
TEASER: A Working Class GOP? (w/ Aaron Sibarium)
Dec 06, 2020
Talking Trump (w/ David Roth)
Nov 28, 2020
TEASER - What Happened? (w/ Eric Levitz and Dan Sherrell)
Nov 14, 2020
Suburban Woman (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)
Oct 29, 2020
On the Road to Reaganland (w/ Rick Perlstein and Leon Neyfakh)
Oct 21, 2020
How to Be Depressed
Oct 12, 2020
Not Even Past (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
Sep 14, 2020
Know Your Frenemies (w/ Samuel Moyn)
Aug 09, 2020
Pandemic Politics (w/ Marshall Steinbaum & Sarah Jones)
Jul 08, 2020
Strange Gods and Strong Gods (w/ Tara Isabella Burton)
Jun 08, 2020
KYE Extra: The Sad Truth (w/ Shuja Haider)
May 14, 2020
Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
May 04, 2020
The Windbag City (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)
Apr 18, 2020
KYE Extra: "Last Ounce of Courage"
Apr 05, 2020
The Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)
Mar 15, 2020
Morbid Symptoms (w/ Ross Douthat)
Feb 05, 2020
What Happened to Norman? (w/ David Klion)
Jan 15, 2020
She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)
Nov 28, 2019
We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery)
Nov 11, 2019
Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)
Oct 29, 2019
KYE EXTRA: "Morning Hate" (w/ Hannah Gais)
Oct 23, 2019
Working-Class Conservatism (w/ Max Alvarez)
Oct 07, 2019
Koch'd Out
Sep 09, 2019
Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)
Aug 15, 2019
The Definitely-Not-Racist National Conservatives
Jul 30, 2019
The Rise of the Illiberal Right
Jul 12, 2019
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)
Jun 26, 2019
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1)
Jun 12, 2019
How Conservatives Argue
May 16, 2019
Behind Enemy Lines
May 07, 2019