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1w ago
Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair ..read more
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3w ago
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals ..read more
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1M ago
Matt and Sam talk to B.D. McClay about the right’s freakout over Taylor Swift—and what she can tell us about American fame, fortune, and fear ..read more
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2M ago
Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student ..read more
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3M ago
Matt and Sam explore how movement conservatives—and their think tanks—are preparing for a second Trump administration ..read more
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4M ago
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss historical scholarship on American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should the field orient itself to 2024 ..read more
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5M ago
Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power ..read more
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6M ago
A discussion of Gary Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family ..read more
Dissent Magazine » Podcast
6M ago
The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s ..read more
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6M ago
Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of an anti-feminist, neoconservative icon ..read more