Know Your Enemy

Mar 05 2025 209 ep. 54 mins 10.9k
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A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, one podcast episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.

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"Exit From Within" (August 2022)

Mar 05 2025 20 mins  
A listener discovered that we predicted DOGE and the tech right's takeover of the federal government in a bonus episode from August 2022. Cool! Depressing!

How Bad Is It? [TEASER]

Feb 24 2025 4 mins  
Matt and Sam have a depressing conversation about how Trump's second term is going.

Pay Attention! (w/ Chris Hayes)

Feb 18 2025 61 mins  
Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC's Chris Hayes to discuss his new book "The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource."

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

Feb 08 2025 2 mins  
Matt and Sam talk to John Ganz about the first weeks of Trump administration.

Ayn Rand Against the World (w/ Jennifer Burns)

Feb 03 2025 120 mins  
Matt and Sam talk to historian Jennifer Burns about the fascinating life, and brutal philosophy, of Ayn Rand.

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

Jan 28 2025 2 mins  
Matt talks to history podcaster Mike Duncan about the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic—and what it might teach us about American decline.

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

Jan 21 2025 96 mins  
Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America."

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

Jan 10 2025 56 mins  
Our latest bonus episode — on resisting backlash politics and responding to "disorder" in Los Angeles w/ Hayes Davenport — is unlocked for the masses.

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

Jan 05 2025 3 mins  
Conservatives blame progressives for crime and disorder in big cities — generating electoral backlash. In this episode, organizer and writer Hayes Davenport joins to discuss his experience resisting this dynamic in Los Angeles.

Women vs. The System (w/ Dorothy Fortenberry)

Dec 27 2024 67 mins  
Matt and Sam welcome back Dorothy Fortenberry to discuss gender, the 2024 election, and whether or not women can run "against The System."