Conservative Intelligentsia with Sam Adler-Bell & Matt Sitman
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia.
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Recommended reading and listening:
“What’s left of liberalism? Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us.” By Sam Adler-Bell
“Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion”
“I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong.” By Rick Perlstein
“The dark history of Donald Trump’s rightwing revolt.” By Timothy Shenk
“The Year the Clock Broke.” By John Ganz
“Anti-’68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right.” By Quinn Slobodian
“Leaving Conservatism Behind: How I renounced the God-and-guns conservatism of my blue-collar roots and embraced class politics.” By Matt Sitman
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.3 | and by the new press, which has loads of great titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.3 | One that you might like is immigration matters, movements, visions, and strategies for a progressive future. |
| 0:20.3 | Edited by Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bargava, and Penny Lewis. |
| 0:24.9 | The Biden administration rescinded Trump's executive orders and sent immigration reform legislation |
| 0:30.2 | to Congress on day one, signaling that immigration will be a governing priority. Featuring essays by |
| 0:37.3 | many of the country's leading immigration |
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| 0:46.2 | Friday, February 26th at 1 p.m. E.ST, four contributors to the book, including U.S. |
| 0:52.7 | Representative Pramilla Jayapal, will join Community |
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| 1:14.6 | Immigration Matters, edited by Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bargava and Penny Lewis. |
| 1:20.5 | Coming soon from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:35.6 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:40.9 | What happened to conservative intellectuals? |
| 1:51.0 | By 2020, many found themselves with zero support among a right-wing base that despises them. Yet others, paleocons, West Coast Straussians, found in our smooth-brained former president a champion for their long-held ideas. My guests today are Sam Adler |
| 2:03.6 | Bell and Matt Sitman, the hosts of Know Your Enemy, a wonderful podcast about the American |
| 2:09.4 | right that I listen to religiously. This episode is a wide-ranging, lengthy discussion on the history |
| 2:16.4 | of American conservative intellectuals |
| 2:18.3 | and where things sit now, now that the American right has become an almost wholly owned subsidiary |
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