Latest Right wing Podcast Episodes
"Write Like a Man" (w/ Ronnie Grinberg)
Know Your Enemy - April 17, 2024 02:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsHistorian Ronnie Grinberg's new book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals couldn't be better "Know Your Enemy" fodder. (Main characters include: Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, Diana and Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, and Mary McCarthy!) These write...
Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser]
Know Your Enemy - April 09, 2024 17:36 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy It was inevitable that Know Your Enemy would eventually discuss Arguing the World, the 1998 documentary about four Jewish intellectuals who emerged fro...
Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome (w/ B.D. McClay)
Know Your Enemy - March 26, 2024 17:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsWhy are Republicans and the right losing their minds over Taylor Swift, the gifted songwriter and globe-bestriding pop star? Why do they think her NFL-playing, Super Bowl-winning boyfriend is secretly gay—precisely because he's dating Taylor Swift? Why is this slice of Americana being portrayed ...
UNLOCKED: Keeping Up with the Bozells
Know Your Enemy - March 19, 2024 17:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsWhat can four generations of men named "L. Brent Bozell" tell us about the trajectory of modern American conservatism? Well, quite a lot. In this classic KYE bonus episode from February 2021, newly unlocked for these last weeks of Lent, Matt and Sam discuss one of the first families of the postw...
Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn)
Know Your Enemy - March 11, 2024 18:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsThe right's romance with odious foreign dictators didn't start with Putin or Viktor Orbán, and their profound contempt for democracy long predates January 6. In his new book, America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Jacob Heilbrunn traces this tradition on the right...
A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER]
Know Your Enemy - March 04, 2024 16:48 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Matt and Sam return to René Girard via Pope Francis—whom Matt personally met at a recent general audience at the Vatican, and whose homily at that audi...
René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)
Know Your Enemy - February 26, 2024 15:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsThe late René Girard, former Stanford professor of literature and mentor to Peter Thiel, is having something of a moment on the right these days—as Sam Kriss recently put it in a Harper's essay, Girard's name is being "dropped on podcasts and shoved into reading lists," and "Girardianism has bec...
Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser]
Know Your Enemy - February 11, 2024 16:29 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Matt and Sam return to some historiographic questions from our episode with Kim Phillips-Fein — especially how to think the relationship between "right...
Last Word 4 with Eve Poole and Golibe Omenaka and friends
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - February 06, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourThe start of the new season in 2024 marks the end of the current season for Tent Talks. We are bringing our podcast in to land, with a series of final thoughts from former guests, hosts and friends of the show. Join Stephen Backhouse in a series of conversations as we explore The Last Word. This...
Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration
Know Your Enemy - January 30, 2024 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsAs listeners might have noticed, 2024 is a presidential election year, and already the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power is looming over the campaign and the media's coverage of it. In a second term, Trump has promised to weaponize the Justice Department to punish his enemies, deconstr...
Last Word 3 with Rachel Howell
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourThe start of the new season in 2024 marks the end of the current season for Tent Talks. We are bringing our podcast in to land, with a series of final thoughts from former guests, hosts and friends of the show. Join Stephen Backhouse in a series of conversations as we explore The Last Word. Epis...
[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman)
Know Your Enemy - January 26, 2024 02:17 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Journeyman actor Peter Crombie, who appeared in films such as Seven, Born on the Fourth of July, and Natural Born Killers, died earlier this month, on J...
Last Word 2 with Lisa Weaver Swartz and Amanda Holm Rosengren
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - January 23, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourThe start of the new season in 2024 marks the end of the current season for Tent Talks. We are bringing our podcast in to land, with a series of final thoughts from former guests, hosts and friends of the show. Join Stephen Backhouse in a series of conversations as we explore The Last Word. Epis...
The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)
Know Your Enemy - January 17, 2024 22:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsWhen did the American conservative movement begin? Who were its chief protagonists? What were their main motivations? Is the conservative movement a social movement, like any other, or is it something different? Should scholars have "sympathy" for their conservative subjects in order to study th...
Last Word 1 with Brad Jersak, Natasha Beckles and friends
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - January 16, 2024 10:00 - 1 hourThe start of the new season 2024 marks the end of the current season for Tent Talks. We are bringing our podcast in to land, with a series of final thoughts from former guests, hosts and friends of the show. Join Stephen Backhouse in a series of conversations as we explore The Last Word. Episod...
Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER]
Know Your Enemy - January 01, 2024 19:57 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Writer Osita Nwanevu joins for a rip-roaring conversation about legendary prose stylist, "new journalist," and novelist Tom Wolfe. Reviewing a new docum...
#35) The Most Wonderful Episode of the Year (with Sam Negus)
UnAmerican - December 24, 2023 16:20 - 2 hoursOn this episode: Brandon, Franklin and Jim invite friend of the show-Sam Negus back for another Christmas Special after nearly a year long hiatus. Happy Holidays!!
Representation Politics: Finding the Middle with Claudine and Kuda
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - December 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourLeft, Right, or in the middle? Guest host and previous guest to the Tent Sheyi Martin-Allens presents a series of conversations with black and brown friends from across the political spectrum to discuss their thoughts on having Britain's first Asian prime minister along with a government contain...
Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker)
Know Your Enemy - December 19, 2023 22:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsFor our final main episode of 2023, we're dipping back into the Wills well to discuss Garry's under-appreciated 2010 book, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. Joining us is our great friend Erik Baker, lecturer in the History of Science Department at Harvard Unive...
Representation Politics: Finding the Middle with Chine and David Gyasi
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - December 19, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutesLeft, Right, or in the middle? Guest host and previous guest to the Tent Sheyi Martin-Allens presents a series of conversations with black and brown friends from across the political spectrum to discuss their thoughts on having Britain's first Asian prime minister along with a government contain...
Representation Politics: Leaning Right with Sunday, Peter, and Adrian
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - December 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourLeft, Right, or in the middle? Guest host and previous guest to the Tent Sheyi Martin-Allens presents a series of conversations with black and brown friends from across the political spectrum to discuss their thoughts on having Britain's first Asian prime minister along with a government contain...
Representation Politics: Leaning Left with Nee, Richard, and Nova Reid
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - December 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourLeft, Right, or in the middle? Guest host and previous guest to the Tent Sheyi Martins-Allens presents a series of conversations with black and brown friends from across the political spectrum to discuss their thoughts on having Britain's first Asian prime minister along with a government contai...
Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times (w/ Jennifer Burns)
Know Your Enemy - December 03, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsIn this episode, Matt and Sam are joined by Stanford historian Jennifer Burns to discuss her new biography of Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist whose influence would reach far beyond the academy when, during his last decades, he became one of the most effective popularizers of l...
Anarcho-Capitalism in Argentina? (w/ David Adler) [TEASER]
Know Your Enemy - November 22, 2023 16:43 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Know Your Enemy Latin America correspondent David Adler returns to breakdown the (terrible) election results from Argentina, where Javier Milei, a deran...
The Kennedy Imprisonment (w/ Jeet Heer)
Know Your Enemy - November 17, 2023 22:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsIn this episode, Matt and Sam welcome the Nation's Jeet Heer to the podcast to continue their journey into the work of Garry Wills—in particular, Wills's under-appreciated 1982 masterpiece, The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power. The book might be thought of as a sequel to his earlier N...
A Christmas Tent Talk with Emily Hunter McGowin
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - November 14, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutesDr. Emily Hunter McGowin has entered the Tent to take part in Chris Marchand's annual Christmas episode. She has just released her new book Christmas: The Season of Life and Light which offers reflections, insights, and gentle challenges about how we celebrate the holiday season. The conversatio...
More Questions, More Answers [Teaser]
Know Your Enemy - November 04, 2023 18:49 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsSubscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy In which we answer more of your excellent questions, including: the right-wing panic over children; how to leave grad school; Tillich, Niebuhr, and Doro...
Your Questions, Answered
Know Your Enemy - October 28, 2023 17:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsOnce a year Matt and Sam take questions from listeners—and they always prove to be incredibly smart and interesting. This time around was no different, with questions that include such topics as: the crisis in Israel and Palestine, the influence of postliberal thinkers on the right, polarization...
In Search of Anti-Semitism (w/ John Ganz)
Know Your Enemy - October 13, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsIn a 1991, William F. Buckley, Jr. dedicated almost an entire issue of National Review to an essay entitled "In Search of Anti-Semitism." In its pages, Buckley attempted to adjudicate a conflict that was then roiling America's right wing intelligentsia — over whether two of its leading lights,...
Bonus: Tolkien and Nonviolence? with Austin M. Freeman
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse - October 12, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutesAustin M. Freeman, professor at Houston Christian University, joins the tent for another bonus episode to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's views on non-violence and war. Who exactly is the "pacifist" in The Lord of the Rings and why isn't it Tom Bombadil? In two archival episode segments Melody Green, d...
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