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Truce - History of the Christian ChurchRepublicans and Evangelicals I Barry Goldwater – How Republicans Welcomed Extremism - Part TwoGive a little to help Chris a lotIn the first part of our series, Chris explored the beginning of Barry Goldwater's career, from his early days as a young man to his rise to the Senate. In the second episode, Goldwater still hasn't agreed to be the nominee, even though groups are raising money in his name.One of his most valuable supporters was a woman named Phyllis Schlafly. In 1964 she published a small book, A Choice Not an Echo. It claimed that GOP nominations had been rigged going back many years. She felt...2025-02-1843 min
Truce - History of the Christian ChurchRepublicans and Evangelicals I Barry Goldwater – How Republicans Welcomed Extremism - Part OneGive to help Chris continue making TruceBarry Goldwater may be one of the most interesting figures in Republican history. He grew up the son of a wealthy department store owner. He was a city council member and then a senator from Arizona. He was handsome and took pictures with guns and cacti. Goldwater was also a libertarian who wanted a small government and low taxes.His platform was laid out in a ghostwritten book Conscience of a Conservative. L. Brent Bozell wrote the book. He was a member of the John Birch Society. The...2025-02-0439 min
Truce - History of the Christian ChurchRepublicans and Evangelicals I The John Birch Society (featuring Matthew Dallek)Give to help Chris make TruceRobert Welch was a candy magnate who invented the Sugar Daddy and sold favorites like Junior Mints and Milk Duds. He was also very anti-communist. His dubious research led him to found the John Birch Society, a group whose mission was to spread conspiracy theories worldwide. They had major support from wealthy men like Fred Koch, father of the Koch brothers (who financed opposition to Obamacare and climate change legislation).Some of their most notable campaigns were those against Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl...2025-01-2144 min
Know Your EnemyThe Infernal Triangle (w/ Rick Perlstein)The author of several excellent books about the history of American conservatism, including The Invisible Bridge, Nixonland, and Reaganland, Rick Perlstein makes his triumphant return to Know Your Enemy. Drawing on Rick's wealth of historical knowledge, as well as his American Prospect column — entitled "The Infernal Triangle" — we explore the failures of American media elites and the Democratic Party to reckon with Donald Trump and his antecedents on the far right. What are the habits and genres of American journalism that inhibit an adequate accounting of Trump's rise and influence? Why do Democrats tend to adopt "conservatism lite," when face...2024-10-2559 min
Angry PlanetOn Presidential Assassins and the RNC With Rick PerlsteinListen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com/Ronald Reagan carried a gun in his briefcase when he was president. According to Edmund Morris’ pseudo-historical memoir of Reagan, Dutch, Reagan got the gun in Iowa. “It is a fact … that RR did acquire a 1934 Walther PPK .380 pocket-sized police pistol early in his stay in Des Moines and kept it lovingly the rest of his life,” Morris wrote. “He even toted it in his briefcase as president.”Reagan was obsessed with the idea that he was a target of assassination and had been since h...2024-07-181h 02
Know Your EnemyConsider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh)Historian David Austin Walsh joins to discuss his excellent new book Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right — a fascinating re-description of the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War. How did figures like William F. Buckley, Jr. relate to figures on the further right fringes of right-wing politics, people like Merwin K Hart, Revilo Oliver, Russel Maguire, and George Lincoln Rockwell? And how should we make sense of Buckley and others' furtive efforts to sanitize the right of its more exp...2024-05-201h 34
Know Your EnemyThe Inconclusive Mr. Buckley [Teaser]Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Matt and Sam gab about "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley," a new PBS documentary on William F. Buckley Jr., which features Matt Sitman (!) as a talking head — along with a rogue's gallery of KYE friends and former guests: Perlstein, Tanenhaus, Tait, Gage, Burns, the whole gang... What do we make of the doc? Is it a whitewash? Is it too credulous about the conservative movement? Does it "get" Buckley, the man? (Does anyone?) And what...2024-05-0502 min
Know Your EnemyThe History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein)When did the American conservative movement begin? Who were its chief protagonists? What were their main motivations? Is the conservative movement a social movement, like any other, or is it something different? Should scholars have "sympathy" for their conservative subjects in order to study them? And are there important distinctions to be drawn between "conservative," "the right," and "the far right?" These are the sorts of questions historians ask each other and themselves. The changing ways they answer them — and the reasons their answers change — is the subject of today's episode. In other words: we're discussing the histor...2024-01-171h 06
Know Your EnemyMore Questions, More Answers [Teaser]Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemyIn which we answer more of your excellent questions, including: the right-wing panic over children; how to leave grad school; Tillich, Niebuhr, and Dorothy Day; why 21st century Bob Dylan is the best Bob Dylan; how to teach a course on post-war conservatism; and more!Sources cited:Matthew Sitman, "Anti-Social Conservatives," Gawker, July 25, 2022.— "Whither the Religious Left?" The New Republic, April 15, 2021.Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of th...2023-11-0402 min
Know Your EnemyHow They Did It, Pt. 2: The Christian Right and RoeAt long last, Matt and Sam dive into the origins of the Christian right—a complicated tale often flattened by contemporary debates. What was the history of Christian anti-abortion activism before Roe, and how soon after the landmark Supreme Court decision did conservative Christians coalesce around the abortion—and other issues—to become the political force we know today? What did it take to get Catholics and evangelicals to join forces, and what were the barriers to them coming together, especially given the history of anti-Catholicism in the United States? And how did all this help reshape the GOP into a...2022-06-171h 28
Know Your EnemyOn the Road to Reaganland (w/ Rick Perlstein and Leon Neyfakh)Matt and Sam talk to two esteemed guests, Rick Perlstein and Leon Neyfakh, about why U.S. politics took a right turn in the 1970s. “We organize discontent,” as one New Right activist put it—and they did. Fierce battles over desegregation, gay rights, abortion, and the meaning of America itself all paved the way for Ronald Reagan's smashing victory in 1980.Over four books and two decades, historian Rick Perlstein has chronicled the rise of movement conservatism in America, starting with its renegade beginnings in the 1950s and '60s. Now, with Reaganland (2020), his extraordinary tetralogy is complet...2020-10-221h 18Angry PlanetHow Reagan Made Us the Armaggedon GenerationAmerica is perhaps more conservative today than it’s ever been. For some on the right, Obama, Biden and Clinton look like socialists. For people on the left, they look like moderate republicans. There’s a reason for both of those views that’s steeped in America’s recent past. U.S. culture was shaped by a suave and smooth talking President who promised we could be a beacon of hope for the world and a shining city on a hill.Here to talk about what happened is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a returning guest and the auth...2020-10-031h 00
Angry Planet Subscriber FeedWhy These Protests Are Different Than 1968Our guest today is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a historian and author best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. He’s also written the forthcoming Reaganland: America’s Right Turn.This is more WTO in 1999 than it is 1968Why we don’t remember NewarkIs the press doing better this time?The Jimmy Carter Crisis.How the Presidency shapes the American people.Defining FascismYou can listen to War College on iTunes...2020-06-0559 minAngry PlanetWhy These Protests Are Different Than 1968Our guest today is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a historian and author best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. He’s also written the forthcoming Reaganland: America’s Right Turn.This is more WTO in 1999 than it is 1968Why we don’t remember NewarkIs the press doing better this time?The Jimmy Carter Crisis.How the Presidency shapes the American people.Defining FascismYou can listen to War College on iTunes...2020-06-0559 min
Know Your EnemyThe Year the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz)Matt and Sam talk to John Ganz about paleoconservatism, the Island of the Misfit Toys of the American right. Along the way we're introduced to David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and others, and discuss their enduring influence on the Republican Party and conservative politics—both in 1992, when Buchanan made a failed run for president, and today, when the hopes of their movement seems to have been fulfilled in Donald Trump.Sources and Recommended Reading:John Ganz, The Year the Clock Broke (The Baffler)John Ganz, Finding Neverland (The New Republic)Ri...2020-03-151h 59
Giving the Mic to the Wrong PersonEp 17 - Redpillers, the Post-Apocalypse, and Jenkem, all in one show?!We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), & I started by talking about Gamergate/RedPill/MRA bollocks, and naturally wander off into creators who can't be edited, Zizek, why we can't envision a future that isn't post-apoc or SkyNet-controlled, and wind up mentioning fake drugs, from "Nuke" to one the media actually think are real, like Jenkem. Ep was recorded in early April.
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The quote I'm mangling is from Fredric Jameson(I think), and Zizek says it a lot: "It is easier to imagine the end of...2017-04-241h 20
The Matthew Filipowicz ShowEpisode 500 with Rick PerlsteinComing up on today's 500th episode, we have author and historian Rick Perlstein back on the show to discuss what's historic about Donald Trump's nomination, and what has roots in the Republican's past. We also have a TMFS sketch on the sexism in Rio Olympics coverage. Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes, Stitcher and at www.matthewf.net. You can follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, You can watch video of the show on YouTube. And you can support the show by becoming a member. We hav...2016-08-1140 min
Agreeing Loudly Coast to CoastAgreeing Loudly Special Podcast: Why The Democrats Are LosingPat, Troy and Carson take a deep dive into why democrats are
losing elections and provide their insights into how and when
the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy will start winning again. Troy
talks about the cynical aspects of identity politics, Pat does his
best Nate Silver and looks into the state legislative losses over
the last 7 years and Carson takes on the bipartisan neoliberal to
neoconservative policy consensus of tax cuts and who they really
benefit.
With some shameless pleas for Thomas Frank and Rick
Perlstein to pay attention to Agreeing Loudly and a handful of
gre...2016-04-3000 min
The Matthew Filipowicz ShowEpisode 465 with Rick PerlsteinComing up on today's show, we have author and historian Rick Perlstein back on the show to discuss Donald Trump and the rise of right wing extremist rhetoric as well as what Rahm Emanuel knew about the murder of Laquan McDonald and when.
We also have a TMFS sketch on Trump saying he'd “take out” the families of suspected terrorists.
Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes, Stitcher and at www.matthewf.net. You can follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, You can watch video of the show o...2015-12-1130 min