Ranked #1
Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)
Trump Country (w/ Sarah Jones)
Sarah Jones joins Matt and Sam to discuss the myth of "Trump Country" and the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, an... Read more
29 Oct 2019
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1hr 40mins
Ranked #2
She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)
She's Got a Plan (w/ Rebecca Traister)
Matt and Sam talk to Rebecca Traister of New York magazine about sexism and electoral politics. How has patriarchy condi... Read more
28 Nov 2019
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1hr 29mins
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Sam Tanenhaus's original 2009 essay in The New Republic, the basis for the book we're discussing today: https://newrepub... Read more
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Will Arbery's play "Heroes of the Fourth Turning"—about four conservative Catholic friends arguing under a night sky in ... Read more
11 Nov 2019
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Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield)
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Matt and Sam's first ever guest, Patrick Blanchfield, is an Associate Faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Socia... Read more
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Koch'd Out
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With the help of Jane Mayer's essential 2016 book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of... Read more
9 Sep 2019
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Matt and Sam are finally joined by the show's longtime bête noire, Marshall Steinbaum, for a deep dive into the Chicago ... Read more
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How Conservatives Argue
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In episode two of KNOW YOUR ENEMY, Matt and Sam discuss economist Albert O. Hirschman's 1991 book The Rhetoric of React... Read more
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