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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Episodes
Matt and Sam discuss the new PBS documentary about William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley."
Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against... more
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book "Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and... more
Matt and Sam watch the wonderful 1998 documentary "Arguing the World" — and go deep on Irving Howe, Irving... more
Matt and Sam talk to B.D. McClay about the right's deranged freakout over Taylor Swift — and what she can... more
Matt and Sam discuss a conservative family saga for the ages — the Bozells — in a classic KYE episode... more
Matt and Sam talk to Jacob Heilbrunn about his new book, America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.
Matt and Sam return to René Girard via Pope Francis—whom Matt personally met at a recent general audience at the... more
Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory of "mimetic desire," violence,... more
What is the relationship between the "right" and the "far right?" Matt and Sam return to questions of historiography. Subscribe... more