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Know Your Enemy — 271 episodes

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1

Tucker Carlson and the Anti-Israel Right (w/ Peter Beinart) [Teaser]

2

Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History (w/ Matt Dinan)

3

Know Your Enemy, Live! (w/ Mike Duncan) [Teaser]

4

Military Education and American Manhood (w/ Jasper Craven)

5

Even More Listener Questions, Answered [Teaser]

6

The Seven Year Anniversary Mailbag Episode

7

Reasons To Believe [Teaser]

8

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

9

The Pope and the President [Teaser]

10

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

11

Misogyny, MAGA-style [Teaser]

12

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

13

James Talarico and the Politics of Progressive Christianity [Teaser]

14

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

15

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

16

Leaving MAGA Behind (w/ Pedro L. Gonzalez)

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

The Killing of Renee Good [Teaser]

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

One Podcast After Another (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

27

On Friendship (w/ Andy Elrick)

28

The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field)

29

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

30

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

31

Break Glass in Case of Emergency

32

Command + F + Hitler [Teaser]

33

How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era

34

How To Give A Damn [Teaser]

35

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

36

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk [Teaser]

37

The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu)

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

From Armageddon to Zionism — More Listener Questions [Teaser]

43

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

44

Trump's Epstein Problem [Teaser]

45

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

46

Zohran! (w/ Waleed Shahid) [Teaser]

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

Joe Biden's Betrayal [TEASER]

52

Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

The Meaning of Pope Francis

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two

62

Becoming Elon Musk, Part One

63

"Exit From Within" (August 2022)

64

How Bad Is It? [TEASER]

65

Pay Attention! (w/ Chris Hayes)

66

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

67

Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

Women vs. The System (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

73

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

74

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

75

Organizing in Rural America (w/ Luke Mayville)

76

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

77

What's Wrong with the Democrats? [TEASER]

78

Trump's Triumph (w/ Ian Ward)

79

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

80

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

81

The Infernal Triangle (w/ Rick Perlstein)

82

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

83

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

84

Boys and Girls in America (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

85

More Mailbag, More Friends [Teaser]

86

Know Your Friends: 100th Episode Mailbag

87

Kamala's Commanding Debate Performance [TEASER]

88

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

89

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

90

Political Fictions (w/ Vinson Cunningham)

91

Kamala's Convention [Teaser]

92

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

93

What's Wrong with J.D. Vance?

94

Project 2025 Implodes (w/ Mary Harris)

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

Joe's Gotta Go [Teaser]

100

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

101

When the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)

102

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

103

Will the Trump Verdict Matter? [Teaser]

104

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

105

Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh)

106

The Inconclusive Mr. Buckley [Teaser]

107

Against Despair (w/ Christian Wiman)

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

UNLOCKED: Keeping Up with the Bozells

112

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

113

A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]

114

René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)

115

Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]

116

Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration

117

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

118

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

119

Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]

120

Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)

121

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

122

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

123

The Kennedy Imprisonment (w/ Jeet Heer)

124

More Questions, More Answers [Teaser]

125

Your Questions, Answered

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

Reading the Trump Indictments [Teaser]

131

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

132

The First 2024 GOP Presidential Debate [TEASER]

133

The Hochman Affair

134

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

135

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

136

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

137

Legal Trouble

138

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

139

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

140

The Prayers and Prophecies of Pat Robertson [TEASER]

141

What's Wrong With Men?

142

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

143

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

144

TEASER: The January 6th Committee Report

145

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

146

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

147

Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)

148

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

149

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

150

Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History

151

Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)

152

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

153

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

154

TEASER: Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)

155

The Eyes of the Ranger (w/ Jesse Brenneman)

156

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

157

Jesus and Bob Dylan (w/ the Jokermen)

158

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

159

TEASER: More Mail, More Bag

160

You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)

161

How Fetterman Won (w/ Joe Calvello)

162

TEASER: The Red Ripple (Midterm Debrief)

163

Nixon Agonistes

164

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

165

Why Conservatives Love Baseball (w/ David Roth)

166

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

167

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

168

After the Theocons (w/ Damon Linker)

169

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

170

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

171

TEASER: Blake Masters + Claremont

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

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

179

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

180

TEASER: Yinzer Country

181

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

182

The Conservative and the Convict (w/ Sarah Weinman)

183

The Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabriel Winant)

184

Macron vs. Le Pen (w/ Cole Stangler)

185

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

186

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

187

Red Diaper Baby (w/ Ari Brostoff)

188

The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter)

189

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

190

A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)

191

Mothers of Conservatism (w/ Michelle Nickerson)

192

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

193

School Wars (w/ Jennifer Berkshire)

194

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

195

Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)

196

UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)

197

Hindsight is 2021

198

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

199

TEASER: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)

200

Retvrn of the National Conservatives

201

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

202

Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism

203

TEASER: Reporting for Duty (w/ Dave Weigel)

204

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

205

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

206

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

207

TEASER: Coup, Covid, Congress

208

Twenty Years of Terror (w/ Spencer Ackerman)

209

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

210

TEASER: Where's the Rest of Him?

211

Buckley for Mayor (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)

212

KYE Presents: 5-4 on Connick v. Thompson

213

TEASER: Woke Capital

214

After Nationalism (w/ Samuel Goldman)

215

The Afterlife of January 6th

216

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

217

TEASER: How (Not) to Talk About Racism

218

Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow

219

TEASER: Hot and Bothered

220

TEASER: Jaffa vs. Kendall

221

The Enemy Within (w/ Brandy Jensen)

222

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

223

UNLOCKED: Democracy and Its Discontents

224

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

225

Overheated (w/ Kate Aronoff)

226

TEASER: Democracy and Its Discontents

227

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

228

TEASER: A Royal Mess

229

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

230

The Rush Limbaugh Show (w/ Nicole Hemmer)

231

TEASER: Keeping up with the Bozells

232

How to Survive a Pandemic (w/ Peter Staley)

233

UNLOCKED: Midnight in the Garden of American Heroes

234

TEASER: L'Affaire (w/ John Ganz)

235

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

236

TEASER: West Coast Straussians and the "1776 Report"

237

Did It Happen Here?

238

TEASER: Storming the Capitol

239

Masks Off: The Right in 2020

240

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

241

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

242

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

243

Talking Trump (w/ David Roth)

244

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

245

Suburban Woman (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

246

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

247

How to Be Depressed

248

Not Even Past (w/ Jamelle Bouie)

249

Know Your Frenemies (w/ Samuel Moyn)

250

Pandemic Politics (w/ Marshall Steinbaum & Sarah Jones)

251

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

252

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

253

Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)

254

The Windbag City (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)

255

KYE Extra: "Last Ounce of Courage"

256

The Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)

257

Morbid Symptoms (w/ Ross Douthat)

258

What Happened to Norman? (w/ David Klion)

259

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

260

We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery)

261

Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)

262

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

263

Working-Class Conservatism (w/ Max Alvarez)

264

Koch'd Out

265

Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)

266

The Definitely-Not-Racist National Conservatives

267

The Rise of the Illiberal Right

268

The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)

269

The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1)

270

How Conservatives Argue

271

Behind Enemy Lines