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Know Your Enemy

Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh)

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

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam talk to historian David Austin Walsh about his new book, "Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right."

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0:00.0

All right, welcome listeners to episode 92 of Know Your Enemy.

0:03.7

I'm at Sitman, your podcast co-host.

0:05.7

I'm here, as always, with my great friend Sam of the Bell.

0:08.6

Hey Sam.

0:09.3

Hello Matt.

0:10.0

How are you doing?

0:12.1

I'm good.

0:13.0

I too am well.

0:15.0

And we wanted to introduce an episode that's been in the works for a long time and that we're

0:19.1

very excited to share.

0:20.9

We had on historian David Austin Walsh, who is currently a postdoctoral

0:26.2

associate at the Yale program for the study of anti-Semitism. Previously he taught at the

0:31.3

University of Virginia and he fairly recently finished his PhD at Princeton University and we had him on to discuss his brand new book.

0:39.0

It just came out last month.

0:40.5

It's called Taking America Back, the conservative movement, and the far right.

0:45.0

Yeah, I'll just say this.

0:46.6

First of all, David has been in the kind of brain trust of the podcast for a long, long time.

0:52.0

Somebody that we talk to when we're trying to

0:54.0

figure something out, ask him about a certain archive. Does somebody have access to

0:58.5

this particular article, blah blah blah. Like one of those historians of the right who we have a lot of admiration for and I

1:06.0

was excited for his book and I think we kind of say this at the beginning of the

1:09.5

episode but the book is even better than I hoped that it would be.

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