How They Did It, Pt. 3: The End of the Beginning

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

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Matt and Sam conclude their in-depth exploration of the overturning Roe v. Wade, this time focusing on the way conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional GOP.

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0:00.0	Oh, right listeners, welcome to episode 58 of No Your Enemy.
0:05.6	I'm at Sitman, your podcast co-host, and I'm here with my friend, Sam other Bell.
0:10.1	Hi, Matt.
0:11.1	Hey, Sam.
0:12.1	Usually this is why I ask how you're doing, but I think I know how you're doing, Sam,
0:16.2	which is how a lot of us are doing.
0:18.2	Yeah.
0:19.2	Not great.
0:20.2	You know, this is our third and final episode about how they did it, the overturning of
0:26.4	row.
0:27.4	We actually recorded this on Friday.
0:29.1	So we knew that they had done it when we recorded this, and I think that affected how it
0:34.1	went.
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:36.1	I think for listeners looking for our fresh reactions to this terrible ruling that we knew
0:41.2	was coming, you'll get it at the beginning of the proper episode.
0:45.3	Right.
0:46.3	In this our third episode, we really pick up in the early to mid 90s, and we could have
0:51.8	approached this a lot of different ways.
0:54.7	And we focused on the Cotary of Intellectuals around First Things magazine, which was founded
1:00.3	in 1990, the kind of intellectual organ of the religious right we talk about by the Richard
1:04.9	John Newhouse, people like Robert George, Princeton professor, and Hadley Arches, an important
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