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Know Your Enemy

Your Questions, Answered

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

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam answer listener questions—about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums—in the podcast's annual mailbag episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome listeners to episode 81 of Know Your Enemy.

0:03.8

I'm Matt Sidman, your podcast co-host, and I'm here, as always, with my great friend,

0:08.3

Sam Otherbeau.

0:09.3

Hey, Sam.

0:10.3

Hi, Matt.

0:11.3

We're not going to have a very long intro today.

0:13.3

listeners might recall, we put out a call for questions, one of our famous mailbag episodes.

0:18.4

We do about one a year.

0:19.5

This is it.

0:20.5

So we don't need to introduce it much.

0:21.9

But we had a lot of fun doing it, right, Sam?

0:24.2

We did.

0:25.2

And for listeners who are wanting more discussion of the Israel Gaza War, there's some of that.

0:29.5

There's some post liberalism.

0:31.3

There's some discussion of the concept of polarization.

0:34.4

There's lots of good Know Your Enemy content, so you'll enjoy it.

0:37.0

That's right.

0:38.0

We're going to get right to it.

0:39.0

But before we do, just a few housekeeping items, as always, we're grateful to our partners

0:43.0

at Descent.

0:44.0

And in particular, I wanted to thank everyone who supported Descent at the 70th anniversary

0:49.2

party for Descent in DC toward the end of October.

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