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Know Your Enemy

Midge Decter: Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior (w/ Moira Donegan & Adrian Daub)

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

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of the late Midge Decter, a neoconservative icon and anti-feminist.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome listeners to episode 76 of Know Your Enemy. I'm Matt Sipman, your podcast co-host,

0:06.0

and I'm here with my great friend, Sam at the Bell. Hey, Sam. Hello, Matt. How are you doing today?

0:10.8

I'm good. It's always a good day when I get to record with you, Sam, and we just wanted to record

0:17.7

a quick intro for a really fun podcasting experience we had recently. We teamed up with a new podcast

0:25.6

called In Bed with the Right, and we recorded an episode on mid-dector. The grandmother of Neo

0:32.0

Conservatism, her second husband was Norman Pedoritz, who we did an episode on way back when

0:39.3

of key figure Neo conservatism, and we really dove into this one. Yeah, so the hosts of In Bed with

0:45.4

the Right, which is a new podcast from the Claiming Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.

0:51.2

The hosts are Moira Donigan and Adrian Daub. Moira is a great thinker on feminism and gender and

0:59.6

sexuality, and a writer that people have probably seen her byline all over the place for many, many years.

1:04.8

And Adrian is a professor at Stanford of comparative literature and German studies in the

1:09.4

School of Humanities and Sciences, but with a focus on gender and sexuality as well. So the

1:14.3

podcast that they're hosting is, you know, it's similar to us as they acknowledge at the beginning,

1:18.4

they're taking conservative thought very seriously from a left-wing perspective, but it's really

1:23.0

focused on right-wing thought about gender, sex, and sexuality, which made mid-dector into a great

1:28.6

subject for one of their first episodes. Because she wrote so much about feminism and against feminism

1:33.6

and about gender and the family, and it was so fun to be a part of it. Yes, Adrian and Moira were

1:38.5

both great natural podcasters, I think. When they proposed this, it was like, yes, in fact,

1:43.8

we would have done an episode on mid-eventually, but it was a lot more fun doing it with them,

1:48.4

because of their expertise and what they brought to it. So we had a lot of fun doing it,

1:53.3

they were great, and listeners, we think you'll like this one. We all read a lot of mid-dector

1:58.9

together. Everybody put the work in. We did the work. Sam and Matt do the work.

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