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Know Your Enemy — 284 episodes
Hitler, "The Lessons of History," and the Maw of Late-Stage Trumpism [Teaser]
The Pump and Dump Presidency (w/ Jacob Silverman)
MAGA’s Fight for Animal Rights (w/ Astra Taylor & Aaron Regunberg) [Teaser]
The Long Struggle Against Equality in America (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
Conservatives in Disarray? [Teaser]
Archaeology and Annexation in Palestine (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
UNLOCKED: Tucker Carlson and the Anti-Israel Right (w/ Peter Beinart)
The Platner Ordeal (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry) [Teaser]
Gerontocracy in America (w/ Sam Moyn)
Why Patriotism [Teaser]
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
The Left Ascendant in New York City [Teaser]
Pope Leo XIV's 'Magnifica humanitas' (w/ Jack Hanson)
Tucker Carlson and the Anti-Israel Right (w/ Peter Beinart) [Teaser]
Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History (w/ Matt Dinan)
Know Your Enemy, Live! (w/ Mike Duncan) [Teaser]
Military Education and American Manhood (w/ Jasper Craven)
Even More Listener Questions, Answered [Teaser]
The Seven Year Anniversary Mailbag Episode
Reasons To Believe [Teaser]
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
The Pope and the President [Teaser]
The Bund: Fighting Fascism, Fighting Zionism (w/ Molly Crabapple)
Misogyny, MAGA-style [Teaser]
From Neocon to Never-Trump (w/ Bill Kristol)
James Talarico and the Politics of Progressive Christianity [Teaser]
Trump's War Against Iran (w/ Matt Duss)
Standing Athwart History, Yelling "Slop!" (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]
Leaving MAGA Behind (w/ Pedro L. Gonzalez)
'Shattered Glass,' Journalism, & the End of History [Teaser]
Tucker Carlson's Phases & Stages (w/ Jason Zengerle)
On the Ground in Minneapolis (w/ Lydia Polgreen) [Teaser]
The Donroe Doctrine (w/ David Adler & Matt Kirkegaard)
The Killing of Renee Good [Teaser]
January 6, Five Years Later (w/ Robert Draper)
Great Books and the AI Apocalypse (w/ Matt Dinan) [Teaser]
UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)
What We Got Wrong (and Right) about the Right in 2025 [Teaser]
One Podcast After Another (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
On Friendship (w/ Andy Elrick)
The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field)
Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser]
Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza (w/ Peter Beinart)
Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Command + F + Hitler [Teaser]
How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era
How To Give A Damn [Teaser]
Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk [Teaser]
The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu)
An Officer and a Spy (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]
Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism (w/ Daniel J. Flynn)
The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [Unlocked]
The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang)
From Armageddon to Zionism — More Listener Questions [Teaser]
Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? — And Other Questions
Trump's Epstein Problem [Teaser]
How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked]
Zohran! (w/ Waleed Shahid) [Teaser]
A Complicated Man: William F. Buckley, Jr. (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
MAGA's War Over the War with Iran (w/ Curt Mills) [Teaser]
Immigration Showdown in LA (w/ E. Tammy Kim) [TEASER]
Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [UNLOCKED]
Joe Biden's Betrayal [TEASER]
Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights
Trump as Messianic Prophet (w/ Manvir Singh) [TEASER]
Did Podcasters Make Trump President? (w/ Andrew Marantz)
Conclave (2024) (w/ Brandon Taylor) [TEASER]
The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn (w/ In Bed with the Right)
The Meaning of Pope Francis
The Madness of Trump’s Tariffs (w/ John Ganz) [TEASER]
UNLOCKED: How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells)
How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells) [TEASER]
Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two
Becoming Elon Musk, Part One
"Exit From Within" (August 2022)
How Bad Is It? [TEASER]
Pay Attention! (w/ Chris Hayes)
MAGA x DOGE, So Far (w/ John Ganz) [TEASER]
Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)
How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [TEASER]
The Entrepreneurial Ethic & How We Work Today (w/ Erik Baker)
UNLOCKED: Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport)
Are Progressives to Blame for Urban Disorder? (w/ Hayes Davenport) [Teaser]
Women vs. The System (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)
Trump 2.0 and the Courts (w/ the 5-4 podcast)
Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [Teaser]
Organizing in Rural America (w/ Luke Mayville)
Trump the Dove? Or Trump the Neocon? (w/ Curt Mills)
What's Wrong with the Democrats? [TEASER]
Trump's Triumph (w/ Ian Ward)
UNLOCKED: Voting: What Is it Good For? (w/ Astra Taylor, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, & Malcolm Harris)
Voting: What Is it Good For? (w/ Astra Taylor, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, & Malcolm Harris) [TEASER]
The Infernal Triangle (w/ Rick Perlstein)
The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [TEASER]
Democratic Dilemmas after the New Deal Consensus (w/ Timothy Shenk) [TEASER]
Boys and Girls in America (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)
More Mailbag, More Friends [Teaser]
Know Your Friends: 100th Episode Mailbag
Kamala's Commanding Debate Performance [TEASER]
[UNLOCKED] The Uncommitted Movement (w/ Waleed Shahid & Abbas Alawieh)
The Uncommitted Movement (w/ Waleed Shahid & Abbas Alawieh) [Teaser]
Political Fictions (w/ Vinson Cunningham)
Kamala's Convention [Teaser]
What Happened to America's Political Parties? (w/ Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld)
What's Wrong with J.D. Vance?
Project 2025 Implodes (w/ Mary Harris)
Trump Survives, Biden Doesn't. Where Are We? [Teaser]
Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model (w/ Suzanne Schneider)
If Joe’s Cooked, What Now? (w/ Ettingermentum) [Teaser]
The Wolfe in the White Suit (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [UNLOCKED]
Joe's Gotta Go [Teaser]
Has the Far Right Won in Europe? (w/ David Adler & David Broder) [Teaser]
When the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)
The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement (w/ Neil J. Young)
Will the Trump Verdict Matter? [Teaser]
What Was the CIO? (w/ Tim Barker and Ben Mabie)
Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh)
The Inconclusive Mr. Buckley [Teaser]
Against Despair (w/ Christian Wiman)
"Write Like a Man" (w/ Ronnie Grinberg)
Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser]
Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome (w/ B.D. McClay)
UNLOCKED: Keeping Up with the Bozells
Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn)
A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]
René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)
Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]
Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration
[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman)
The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]
Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)
Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times (w/ Jennifer Burns)
Anarcho-Capitalism in Argentina? (w/ David Adler) [TEASER]
The Kennedy Imprisonment (w/ Jeet Heer)
More Questions, More Answers [Teaser]
Your Questions, Answered
In Search of Anti-Semitism (w/ John Ganz)
House of Pain (w/ Eric Levitz) [Teaser]
The Debate, the Donald, and the Strike [Teaser]
Elon Musk, the Jews, and the ADL (w/ Mari Cohen, Alex Kane, & Peter Beinart)
Reading the Trump Indictments [Teaser]
What the Cold War Did to Liberalism (w/ Samuel Moyn)
The First 2024 GOP Presidential Debate [TEASER]
The Hochman Affair
Grateful Dead Conservatives (w/ Sophie Haigney) [TEASER]
Midge Decter: Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior (w/ Moira Donegan & Adrian Daub)
TEASER: Sin and Salvation in the Righteous Gemstones (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
Legal Trouble
Impossible Professions: Freud and Janet Malcolm (ft. Patrick Blanchfield & Abby Kluchin)
Grow Up, Men (w/ Phil Christman) [TEASER]
The Prayers and Prophecies of Pat Robertson [TEASER]
What's Wrong With Men?
The 2024 Race: "It's Showtime, Folks!" (TEASER)
"Succession," "Extrapolations," and TV Writing Today (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery)
TEASER: The January 6th Committee Report
Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida (w/ Gillian Branstetter)
TEASER: Whittaker Chambers, Redux (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)
TEASER: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (w/ Nichole M. Flores)
TEASER: Suffering, Solidarity, and Ritual (w/ Susan Bigelow Reynolds)
Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)
TEASER: Le Carre's Cold War (w/ Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz)
Triumph of the Therapeutic (w/ Hannah Zeavin & Alex Colston)
TEASER: Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)
The Eyes of the Ranger (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
TEASER: The Death of Pope Benedict XVI (w/ Michael O'Loughlin)
Jesus and Bob Dylan (w/ the Jokermen)
J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage)
TEASER: More Mail, More Bag
You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)
How Fetterman Won (w/ Joe Calvello)
TEASER: The Red Ripple (Midterm Debrief)
Nixon Agonistes
TEASER: State of the States (w/ Aaron Kleinman)
Why Conservatives Love Baseball (w/ David Roth)
TEASER: Giorgia Meloni's Neo-Fascism (w/ David Broder)
TEASER: I Taught the Sheriff (w/ John Ganz)
After the Theocons (w/ Damon Linker)
On Barbara Ehrenreich (w/ Alex Press & Gabriel Winant)
A Low, Dishonest Decade: The Right in the 1990s (w/ Nicole Hemmer)
TEASER: Blake Masters + Claremont
Christopher Lasch's Critique of Progress (w/ Chris Lehmann)
TEASER: Far-Right Vanguard (w/ John S. Huntington)
Up From Straussianism (w/ Matt McManus & Victor Bruzzone)
How They Did It, Pt. 3: The End of the Beginning
The State of the American Right (w/ Daniel Denvir)
How They Did It, Pt. 2: The Christian Right and Roe
How They Did It: Overturning Roe, Pt. 1 (w/ the 5-4 podcast)
UNLOCKED: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)
TEASER: Yinzer Country
TEASER: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)
The Conservative and the Convict (w/ Sarah Weinman)
The Right Kind of Worker (w/ Gabriel Winant)
Macron vs. Le Pen (w/ Cole Stangler)
The Other Side of the Story (w/ Michael Kazin)
TEASER: Compact with the Devil? (w/ John Ganz)
Red Diaper Baby (w/ Ari Brostoff)
The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter)
TEASER: Disinformation, Peter Thiel, and the Vibe Shift (w/ Joe Bernstein)
A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
Mothers of Conservatism (w/ Michelle Nickerson)
TEASER: How To Be Normal (w/ Phil Christman)
School Wars (w/ Jennifer Berkshire)
TEASER: Cancel Jay Caspian Kang (w/ Jay Caspian Kang)
Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Hindsight is 2021
Young, Radical, and on the Right (w/ Nate Hochman)
TEASER: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield)
Retvrn of the National Conservatives
TEASER: I Am The GooseKing (w/ Ben Firke)
Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism
TEASER: Reporting for Duty (w/ Dave Weigel)
The American Right's Hungary Hearts (w/ Lauren Stokes and John Ganz)
God, Death, and the Pandemic (w/ Sarah Jones)
TEASER: The Texas Bounty Hunter Bill (w/ 5-4's Rhiannon)
TEASER: Coup, Covid, Congress
Twenty Years of Terror (w/ Spencer Ackerman)
Living at the End of Our World (w/ Daniel Sherrell & Dorothy Fortenberry)
TEASER: Where's the Rest of Him?
Buckley for Mayor (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)
KYE Presents: 5-4 on Connick v. Thompson
TEASER: Woke Capital
After Nationalism (w/ Samuel Goldman)
The Afterlife of January 6th
UNLOCKED: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway)
TEASER: How (Not) to Talk About Racism
Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow
TEASER: Hot and Bothered
TEASER: Jaffa vs. Kendall
The Enemy Within (w/ Brandy Jensen)
The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)
UNLOCKED: Democracy and Its Discontents
TEASER: Why the New Deal Matters (w/ Eric Rauchway)
Overheated (w/ Kate Aronoff)
TEASER: Democracy and Its Discontents
KYE Film Club: A Lost Cause (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
TEASER: A Royal Mess
TEASER: France's War on Terror (w/ Cole Stangler)
The Rush Limbaugh Show (w/ Nicole Hemmer)
TEASER: Keeping up with the Bozells
How to Survive a Pandemic (w/ Peter Staley)
UNLOCKED: Midnight in the Garden of American Heroes
TEASER: L'Affaire (w/ John Ganz)
Panic! In America (w/ the You're Wrong About podcast)
TEASER: West Coast Straussians and the "1776 Report"
Did It Happen Here?
TEASER: Storming the Capitol
Masks Off: The Right in 2020
TEASER: Trump the Dove? (w/ Stephen Wertheim)
Why the Supreme Court Sucks (w/ the 5-4 podcast)
TEASER: A Working Class GOP? (w/ Aaron Sibarium)
Talking Trump (w/ David Roth)
TEASER - What Happened? (w/ Eric Levitz and Dan Sherrell)
Suburban Woman (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)
On the Road to Reaganland (w/ Rick Perlstein and Leon Neyfakh)
How to Be Depressed
Not Even Past (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
Know Your Frenemies (w/ Samuel Moyn)
Pandemic Politics (w/ Marshall Steinbaum & Sarah Jones)
Strange Gods and Strong Gods (w/ Tara Isabella Burton)
KYE Extra: The Sad Truth (w/ Shuja Haider)
Longtime Listener, First Time Caller (the Mailbag Episode)
The Windbag City (w/ Marshall Steinbaum)
KYE Extra: "Last Ounce of Courage"
The Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)
Morbid Symptoms (w/ Ross Douthat)
What Happened to Norman? (w/ David Klion)
She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)
We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery)
Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)
KYE EXTRA: "Morning Hate" (w/ Hannah Gais)
Working-Class Conservatism (w/ Max Alvarez)
Koch'd Out
Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)
The Definitely-Not-Racist National Conservatives
The Rise of the Illiberal Right
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 2)
The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1)
How Conservatives Argue
Behind Enemy Lines