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Know Your Enemy — 263 episodes

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1

The Pope and the President [Teaser]

2

The Bund: Fighting Fascism, Fighting Zionism (w/ Molly Crabapple)

3

Misogyny, MAGA-style [Teaser]

4

From Neocon to Never-Trump (w/ Bill Kristol)

5

James Talarico and the Politics of Progressive Christianity [Teaser]

6

Trump's War Against Iran (w/ Matt Duss)

7

Standing Athwart History, Yelling "Slop!" (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]

8

Leaving MAGA Behind (w/ Pedro L. Gonzalez)

9

'Shattered Glass,' Journalism, & the End of History [Teaser]

10

Tucker Carlson's Phases & Stages (w/ Jason Zengerle)

11

On the Ground in Minneapolis (w/ Lydia Polgreen) [Teaser]

12

The Donroe Doctrine (w/ David Adler & Matt Kirkegaard)

13

The Killing of Renee Good [Teaser]

14

January 6, Five Years Later (w/ Robert Draper)

15

Great Books and the AI Apocalypse (w/ Matt Dinan) [Teaser]

16

UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)

17

What We Got Wrong (and Right) about the Right in 2025 [Teaser]

18

One Podcast After Another (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

19

On Friendship (w/ Andy Elrick)

20

The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field)

21

Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser]

22

Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza (w/ Peter Beinart)

23

Break Glass in Case of Emergency

24

Command + F + Hitler [Teaser]

25

How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era

26

How To Give A Damn [Teaser]

27

Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial (w/ Pat Blanchfield)

28

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk [Teaser]

29

The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu)

30

An Officer and a Spy (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]

31

Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism (w/ Daniel J. Flynn)

32

The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [Unlocked]

33

The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang)

34

From Armageddon to Zionism — More Listener Questions [Teaser]

35

Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? — And Other Questions

36

Trump's Epstein Problem [Teaser]

37

How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked]

38

Zohran! (w/ Waleed Shahid) [Teaser]

39

A Complicated Man: William F. Buckley, Jr. (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)

40

MAGA's War Over the War with Iran (w/ Curt Mills) [Teaser]

41

Immigration Showdown in LA (w/ E. Tammy Kim) [TEASER]

42

Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [UNLOCKED]

43

Joe Biden's Betrayal [TEASER]

44

Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights

45

Trump as Messianic Prophet (w/ Manvir Singh) [TEASER]

46

Did Podcasters Make Trump President? (w/ Andrew Marantz)

47

Conclave (2024) (w/ Brandon Taylor) [TEASER]

48

The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn (w/ In Bed with the Right)

49

The Meaning of Pope Francis

50

The Madness of Trump’s Tariffs (w/ John Ganz) [TEASER]

51

UNLOCKED: How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells)

52

How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells) [TEASER]

53

Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two

54

Becoming Elon Musk, Part One

55

"Exit From Within" (August 2022)

56

How Bad Is It? [TEASER]

57

Pay Attention! (w/ Chris Hayes)

58

MAGA x DOGE, So Far (w/ John Ganz) [TEASER]

59

Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)

60

How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [TEASER]

61

The Entrepreneurial Ethic & How We Work Today (w/ Erik Baker)

62

UNLOCKED: Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport)

63

Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport) [Teaser]

64

Women vs. The System (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

65

Trump 2.0 and the Courts (w/ the 5-4 podcast)

66

Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [Teaser]

67

Organizing in Rural America (w/ Luke Mayville)

68

Trump the Dove? Or Trump the Neocon? (w/ Curt Mills)

69

What's Wrong with the Democrats? [TEASER]

70

Trump's Triumph (w/ Ian Ward)

71

UNLOCKED: Voting: What Is it Good For? (w/ Astra Taylor, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, & Malcolm Harris)

72

Voting: What Is it Good For? (w/ Astra Taylor, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, & Malcolm Harris) [TEASER]

73

The Infernal Triangle (w/ Rick Perlstein)

74

The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [TEASER]

75

Democratic Dilemmas after the New Deal Consensus (w/ Timothy Shenk) [TEASER]

76

Boys and Girls in America (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

77

More Mailbag, More Friends [Teaser]

78

Know Your Friends: 100th Episode Mailbag

79

Kamala's Commanding Debate Performance [TEASER]

80

[UNLOCKED] The Uncommitted Movement (w/ Waleed Shahid & Abbas Alawieh)

81

The Uncommitted Movement (w/ Waleed Shahid & Abbas Alawieh) [Teaser]

82

Political Fictions (w/ Vinson Cunningham)

83

Kamala's Convention [Teaser]

84

What Happened to America's Political Parties? (w/ Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld)

85

What's Wrong with J.D. Vance?

86

Project 2025 Implodes (w/ Mary Harris)

87

Trump Survives, Biden Doesn't. Where Are We? [Teaser]

88

Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model (w/ Suzanne Schneider)

89

If Joe’s Cooked, What Now? (w/ Ettingermentum) [Teaser]

90

The Wolfe in the White Suit (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [UNLOCKED]

91

Joe's Gotta Go [Teaser]

92

Has the Far Right Won in Europe? (w/ David Adler & David Broder) [Teaser]

93

When the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)

94

The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement (w/ Neil J. Young)

95

Will the Trump Verdict Matter? [Teaser]

96

What Was the CIO? (w/ Tim Barker and Ben Mabie)

97

Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh)

98

The Inconclusive Mr. Buckley [Teaser]

99

Against Despair (w/ Christian Wiman)

100

"Write Like a Man" (w/ Ronnie Grinberg)

101

Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser]

102

Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome (w/ B.D. McClay)

103

UNLOCKED: Keeping Up with the Bozells

104

Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn)

105

A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]

106

René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)

107

Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]

108

Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration

109

[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman)

110

The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)

111

Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]

112

Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)

113

Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times (w/ Jennifer Burns)

114

Anarcho-Capitalism in Argentina? (w/ David Adler) [TEASER]

115

The Kennedy Imprisonment (w/ Jeet Heer)

116

More Questions, More Answers [Teaser]

117

Your Questions, Answered

118

In Search of Anti-Semitism (w/ John Ganz)

119

House of Pain (w/ Eric Levitz) [Teaser]

120

The Debate, the Donald, and the Strike [Teaser]

121

Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL (w/ Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, & Peter Beinart)

122

Reading the Trump Indictments [Teaser]

123

What the Cold War Did to Liberalism (w/ Samuel Moyn)

124

The First 2024 GOP Presidential Debate [TEASER]

125

The Hochman Affair

126

Grateful Dead Conservatives (w/ Sophie Haigney) [TEASER]

127

Midge Decter: Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior (w/ Moira Donegan & Adrian Daub)

128

TEASER: Sin and Salvation in the Righteous Gemstones (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

129

Legal Trouble

130

Impossible Professions: Freud and Janet Malcolm (ft. Patrick Blanchfield & Abby Kluchin)

131

Grow Up, Men (w/ Phil Christman) [TEASER]

132

The Prayers and Prophecies of Pat Robertson [TEASER]

133

What's Wrong With Men?

134

The 2024 Race: "It's Showtime, Folks!" (TEASER)

135

"Succession," "Extrapolations," and TV Writing Today (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery)

136

TEASER: The January 6th Committee Report

137

Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida (w/ Gillian Branstetter)

138

TEASER: Whittaker Chambers, Redux (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)

139

Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)

140

TEASER: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (w/ Nichole M. Flores)

141

TEASER: Suffering, Solidarity, and Ritual (w/ Susan Bigelow Reynolds)

142

Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History

143

Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)

144

TEASER: Le Carre's Cold War (w/ Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz)

145

Triumph of the Therapeutic (w/ Hannah Zeavin & Alex Colston)

146

TEASER: Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)

147

The Eyes of the Ranger (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

148

TEASER: The Death of Pope Benedict XVI (w/ Michael O'Loughlin)

149

Jesus and Bob Dylan (w/ the Jokermen)

150

J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage)

151

TEASER: More Mail, More Bag

152

You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)

153

How Fetterman Won (w/ Joe Calvello)

154

TEASER: The Red Ripple (Midterm Debrief)

155

Nixon Agonistes

156

TEASER: State of the States (w/ Aaron Kleinman)

157

Why Conservatives Love Baseball (w/ David Roth)

158

TEASER: Giorgia Meloni's Neo-Fascism (w/ David Broder)

159

TEASER: I Taught the Sheriff (w/ John Ganz)

160

After the Theocons (w/ Damon Linker)

161

On Barbara Ehrenreich (w/ Alex Press & Gabriel Winant)

162

A Low, Dishonest Decade: The Right in the 1990s (w/ Nicole Hemmer)

163

TEASER: Blake Masters + Claremont

164

Christopher Lasch's Critique of Progress (w/ Chris Lehmann)

165

TEASER: Far-Right Vanguard (w/ John S. Huntington)

166

Up From Straussianism (w/ Matt McManus & Victor Bruzzone)

167

How They Did It, Pt. 3: The End of the Beginning

168

The State of the American Right (w/ Daniel Denvir)

169

How They Did It, Pt. 2: The Christian Right and Roe

170

How They Did It: Overturning Roe, Pt. 1 (w/ the 5-4 podcast)

171

UNLOCKED: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)

172

TEASER: Yinzer Country

173

TEASER: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)

174

The Conservative and the Convict (w/ Sarah Weinman)

175

The Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabriel Winant)

176

Macron vs. Le Pen (w/ Cole Stangler)

177

The Other Side of the Story (w/ Michael Kazin)

178

TEASER: Compact with the Devil? (w/ John Ganz)

179

Red Diaper Baby (w/ Ari Brostoff)

180

The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter)

181

TEASER: Disinformation, Peter Thiel, and the Vibe Shift (w/ Joe Bernstein)

182

A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)

183

Mothers of Conservatism (w/ Michelle Nickerson)

184

TEASER: How To Be Normal (w/ Phil Christman)

185

School Wars (w/ Jennifer Berkshire)

186

TEASER: Cancel Jay Caspian Kang (w/ Jay Caspian Kang)

187

Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)

188

UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)

189

Hindsight is 2021

190

Young, Radical, and on the Right (w/ Nate Hochman)

191

TEASER: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)

192

Retvrn of the National Conservatives

193

TEASER: I Am The GooseKing (w/ Ben Firke)

194

Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism

195

TEASER: Reporting for Duty (w/ Dave Weigel)

196

The American Right's Hungary Hearts (w/ Lauren Stokes and John Ganz)

197

God, Death, and the Pandemic (w/ Sarah Jones)

198

TEASER: The Texas Bounty Hunter Bill (w/ 5-4's Rhiannon)

199

TEASER: Coup, Covid, Congress

200

Twenty Years of Terror (w/ Spencer Ackerman)

201

Living at the End of Our World (w/ Daniel Sherrell & Dorothy Fortenberry)

202

TEASER: Where's the Rest of Him?

203

Buckley for Mayor (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)

204

KYE Presents: 5-4 on Connick v. Thompson

205

TEASER: Woke Capital

206

After Nationalism (w/ Samuel Goldman)

207

The Afterlife of January 6th

208

UNLOCKED: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway)

209

TEASER: How (Not) to Talk About Racism

210

Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow

211

TEASER: Hot and Bothered

212

TEASER: Jaffa vs. Kendall

213

The Enemy Within (w/ Brandy Jensen)

214

The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)

215

UNLOCKED: Democracy and Its Discontents

216

TEASER: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway)

217

Overheated (w/ Kate Aronoff)

218

TEASER: Democracy and Its Discontents

219

KYE Film Club: A Lost Cause (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

220

TEASER: A Royal Mess

221

TEASER: France's War on Terror (w/ Cole Stangler)

222

The Rush Limbaugh Show (w/ Nicole Hemmer)

223

TEASER: Keeping up with the Bozells

224

How to Survive a Pandemic (w/ Peter Staley)

225

UNLOCKED: Midnight in the Garden of American Heroes

226

TEASER: L'Affaire (w/ John Ganz)

227

Panic! In America (w/ the You're Wrong About podcast)

228

TEASER: West Coast Straussians and the "1776 Report"

229

Did It Happen Here?

230

TEASER: Storming the Capitol

231

Masks Off: The Right in 2020

232

TEASER: Trump the Dove? (w/ Stephen Wertheim)

233

Why the Supreme Court Sucks (w/ the 5-4 podcast)

234

TEASER: A Working Class GOP? (w/ Aaron Sibarium)

235

Talking Trump (w/ David Roth)

236

TEASER - What Happened? (w/ Eric Levitz and Dan Sherrell)

237

Suburban Woman (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

238

On the Road to Reaganland (w/ Rick Perlstein and Leon Neyfakh)

239

How to Be Depressed

240

Not Even Past (w/ Jamelle Bouie)

241

Know Your Frenemies (w/ Samuel Moyn)

242

Pandemic Politics (w/ Marshall Steinbaum & Sarah Jones)

243

Strange Gods and Strong Gods (w/ Tara Isabella Burton)

244

KYE Extra: The Sad Truth (w/ Shuja Haider)

245

Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)

246

The Windbag City (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)

247

KYE Extra: "Last Ounce of Courage"

248

The Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)

249

Morbid Symptoms (w/ Ross Douthat)

250

What Happened to Norman? (w/ David Klion)

251

She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)

252

We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery)

253

Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)

254

KYE EXTRA: "Morning Hate" (w/ Hannah Gais)

255

Working-Class Conservatism (w/ Max Alvarez)

256

Koch'd Out

257

Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)

258

The Definitely-Not-Racist National Conservatives

259

The Rise of the Illiberal Right

260

The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)

261

The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1)

262

How Conservatives Argue

263

Behind Enemy Lines