After the Theocons (w/ Damon Linker)

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam talk to Damon Linker about the George W. Bush administration and the conservative religious publication First Things, his own Straussian-tinged skeptical politics, and how today's Right became so deranged.

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0:00.0	Oh, right. Welcome listeners to episode 62 of Know Your Enemy. I'm Matt Sipman, your podcast co-host and I'm here with my great friend Sam Eatherbeau.
0:08.0	Hey, Sam.
0:09.0	Hi, Matt.
0:10.0	We're covered from my birthday party yet.
0:12.0	Honestly, it took a whole day, but yes.
0:16.0	I'm glad you only get a year older once a year, because I couldn't handle it.
0:21.0	Well, we're here to introduce a really great episode one I'm excited to share.
0:26.0	Sam, who's our guest today?
0:28.0	We have Damon Linker on the pod.
0:30.0	Yes. Our listeners shouldn't know something about Damon.
0:34.0	He's someone I've actually known for years.
0:36.0	We mentioned his book, The Theocons, in the third of our road trilogy episodes.
0:41.0	Right.
0:42.0	He used to be an editor at first things, kind of broke with that crowd.
0:45.0	That scene for reasons we get into in this episode.
0:47.0	But now, this will be of interest to our listeners too.
0:50.0	He runs a sub-stack newsletter called Eyes on the Right,
0:54.0	which is really dedicated to analyzing what's happening among conservatives and on the right.
0:59.0	And he does that from his own kind of idiosyncratic political position,
1:04.0	which is different from ours, because he's not a leftist.
1:06.0	And it's useful.
1:07.0	It's useful.
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