Best Jd Suite Podcasts (2024)

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The West Starts in Ft. Worth with Mayor Mattie Parker 29:31

1h ago29:31

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Ft. Worth is the fastest growing large city in the USA, but they still manage to hold on to their Old West Roots. Check out the daily cattle drive. Mayor Mattie Parker talks about how she helps manage the huge growth in her city but how they keep their Western roots, and she talks music. GoodGovernmentShow.com Thanks to our sponsors: Ourco How to R…

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What's Wrong with J.D. Vance? 1:28:05

3d ago1:28:05

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In this episode, your co-hosts take a harrowing journey into the life, mind, and times of J.D. Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio and current vice-presidential pick of Donald Trump. You probably were introduced to Vance as the author of Hillbilly Elegy, his 2016 memoir that attempts to explain the plight of the "white working class" in places …

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Boots, Hats, and Texas Government with J.D. Clark 36:27

5d ago36:27

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J.D. Clark is a young county juror in Wise County Texas, a suburb of Ft. Worth, growth is the biggest challenge. Growth and keeping the old west and cowboy image of Texas. JD has the hats and boots to go with his Texas roots. Listen and hear about government in Texas. GoodGovernmentShow.com Thanks to our sponsors: Ourco How to Really Run a City Rou…

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Project 2025 Implodes (w/ Mary Harris) 23:56

11d ago23:56

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An extra episode for you: Sam went on Slate's What Next podcast (hosted by Mary Harris) to discuss the rise and fall of the Heritage Foundation's Trump transition project — Project 2025. Is it dead? Why did Trump's campaign resent it so much? And how much influence would its architects have in a second Trump administration? We'll back to your regul…

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If the Mayor Cant Do it Who Can? with Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve 1:00:21

12d ago1:00:21

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Reno, Nevada Mayor Hillary Schieve took it personal. Facing real personal challenges in her family she saw how hard it was to get help for people facing mental health problems. Because of her experiences, she set out to make a difference and make it easier for those seeking mental health solutions. And not just in Reno, but through her position as …

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Update: Clean Water Gets Cleaner in the Florida Keys 49:04

19d ago49:04

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You think of the Florida Keys, you think about clean blue water, great fishing, great swimming and diving and tropical drinks at sunset. However, some of the waters, the many canals where houses were built, were polluted with not enough water flow and were poorly constructed. Now a program is in place to clean up these canals one by one. On our fir…

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Trump Survives, Biden Doesn't. Where Are We? [Teaser] 5:52

24d ago5:52

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy In the week-and-a-half since we last offered you, our beloved subscribers, the highest quality election punditry around, a lot has happened: on the Democratic side of the ledger, "The Podcasters' Coup" succeeded and Joe Biden has stepped down as the party's presi…

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Interview With Paul Jones (Makeup FX, Prosthetics & Animatronics Designer) 44:28

25d ago44:28

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Paul delves into his long lasting career that includes starting his own effects studio and work on, “What We Do in the Shadows”, “Hellraiser 3”, “Silent Hill”, “Solomon Kane” and many more. Link to Paul’s effects studio website: pjfxstudio.com Dead Harvey links: YouTube: @deadharvey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dead_harvey/ Facebook: https:…

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Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model (w/ Suzanne Schneider) 1:06:09

25d ago1:06:09

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Last week, as Israel continued to prosecute its eliminationist war against Palestinians in Gaza, an eclectic group of right-wing bigwigs gathered in Washington, DC for the fourth iteration of the National Conservatism conference — convened by Yarom Hazony, an Israeli-born writer, activist, and former speechwriter for Benjamin Netanyahu. As our gues…

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Great Weather, Great Beaches, and Good Neighbors with San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria 44:10

26d ago44:10

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Mayor Todd Gloria presides over one of the best places in the USA, best if you like near perfect warm weather year ‘round. With Mexico as a neighbor Mayor Todd has a practical and personal relationship with the immigration and border issue. He deals with it every day, and he says what you might hear and see on TV is not often reality. Listen to him…

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If Joe’s Cooked, What Now? (w/ Ettingermentum) [Teaser] 4:32

1M ago4:32

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy Just about two weeks ago, we gave a nearly real-time reaction to Joe Biden's catastrophically inept performance in his first presidential debate against Donald Trump. The fallout has been swift but not certain—a flood of stories in the press were unleashed, givin…

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A tough start in Oakland for Mayor Sheng Thao 33:06

1M ago33:06

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Oakland has always been in the shadow of it’s across the bay neighbor, San Francisco, but a new mayor is working on changing that and improving how the city operates and is perceived. Crime and homelessness are problems, but Mayor Sheng Thao is working on that. Just listen. GoodGovernmentShow.com Thanks to our sponsors: Ourco How to Really Run a Ci…

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The Wolfe in the White Suit (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [UNLOCKED] 1:34:04

1M ago1:34:04

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We took the holiday week off, so we're sharing an episode from behind the paywall. Coming soon: new episodes on The Biden Problem, SCOTUS, and Israeli illiberalism as an inspiration for the global right. *** In this episode, from January 2024, writer Osita Nwanevu joins for a rip-roaring conversation about legendary prose stylist, "new journalist,"…

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The Reluctant Politician Promotes Good Government 50:53

1M ago50:53

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Shawn Milnes didn’t start out wanting to be in government and while he served as a county commissioner, he still can be a government critic, just like how he started out. Thinking he could do better, he ran for office, won an election but now serves Northern Utah on a commission that represents government to the business community. He says his back…

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Joe's Gotta Go [Teaser] 4:25

2M ago4:25

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Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy We watched it, and you probably did too. Here is our analysis of the incredibly depressing, even shocking first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. While the topic of this episode is self…

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Has the Far Right Won in Europe? (w/ David Adler & David Broder) [Teaser] 3:51

2M ago3:51

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We're joined by two experts on European politics to explain the EU parliamentary election results: David Adler, general coordinator of the Progressive International, and David Broder, historian of Italy and Europe editor at Jacobin. What do the results say about the strength of the far right in Europe? And why has Emmanuel Macron of France called s…

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When the Clock Broke (w/ John Ganz) 1:31:19

2M ago1:31:19

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Something happened to America — and to American conservatism — in the early 1990s: an unspooling, a coarsening, a turn from substance to symbol and from narrative to fragment; prevailing political myths ceased to make sense or have purchase, and nothing sufficiently capacious or legible emerged to replace them, leaving only a dank, foggy climate of…

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Housing, Hockey, & Leadership with Mary Jo McGuire 44:07

2M ago44:07

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Hockey player Mary Jo McGuire is also the county commissioner in Ramsey Co, Minnesota. She is also the current president of the National Association of Counties. In the meantime, she champions affordable housing, loves to dine at local ethnic restaurants and for fun cross country skis. Busy lady. Listen to how she manages it all. Thanks to our spon…

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The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement (w/ Neil J. Young) 1:24:45

2M ago1:24:45

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In this special Pride Month episode of Know Your Enemy, Matt and Sam talk to historian Neil J. Young about his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right. His absorbing account picks up in after World War II, when neither party made for a good political home for gay people, which helped make a libertarian approach to sexual politic…

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Apples, Wine and Winston Churchill with Yakima County Commissioner Amanda McKinney 37:29

2M ago37:29

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Yakima Washington County Commissioner Amanda McKinney is a force, she is and she talks and more important she listens. And, being from Washington, she knows her apples and wine, so listen to how you can get the best from Washington in your pie. Thanks to our sponsors: National Association of Counties (NACo) Kutztown University Ourco Executive Produ…

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Will the Trump Verdict Matter? [Teaser] 3:10

2M ago3:10

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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 break down the Trump guilty verdict—what happened during the trial, why the jury might have reached the decision they did, how Republicans and the right reacted, and the ways it all could matter…

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What Was the CIO? (w/ Tim Barker and Ben Mabie) 1:21:36

3M ago1:21:36

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Historian Tim Barker and editor/organizer Ben Mabie join to discuss a thrilling episode in the history of American labor. Barker and Mabie are two co-hosts of Fragile Juggernaut, a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, politics, and strategic lessons of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (or CIO). Along with co-hosts Alex Press, …

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From the Hills, Good Government in Tuolumne County with Jaron Brandon 26:15

3M ago26:15

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Jaron Brandon is Tuolumne County (CA) Supervisor. Housing is an issue that got him involved in politics back in his home county. He has continued to work to create affordable housing and sees housing as an issue that effects almost every other aspect of life. Listen to how he is hoping to improve conditions. Executive Producers: David Martin, David…

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Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh) 1:34:04

3M ago1:34:04

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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 figure…

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The Mothman Lives in West Virginia, check the red eyes... 34:42

3M ago34:42

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Something Weird in Mason County, WV Stop into Mason County and see the Mothman, ok maybe not the real Mothman, but his eight-foot high statue. It’s in downtown Point Pleasant, WV and it’s a local legend and it’s weird, as County Commissioner Rick Handley explains. Ok it’s not Rosewell UFO crash site, weird, but it’s part of the local color of Mason…

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The Inconclusive Mr. Buckley [Teaser] 2:33

3M ago2:33

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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 form…

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Against Despair (w/ Christian Wiman) 1:08:08

4M ago1:08:08

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This conversation is a little different. We wanted to take a break from the election-year political jousting to talk to the poet Christian Wiman about Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, one of the most singular books published in recent memory—part memoir, part commonplace book, part poetry collection. As with his previous My Bright A…

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The Good Commissioner of West Virginia 36:13

4M ago36:13

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Meet Fred Davis of Tucker County, West Virginia. His campaign strategy involved lottery tickets and beer. He’s a real character on government and he’s a real as they come. So what makes him good, he listens… just listen. Thanks to our sponsors: National Association of Counties (NACo) Kutztown University Ourco Executive Producers: David Martin, Davi…

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"Write Like a Man" (w/ Ronnie Grinberg) 1:16:40

4M ago1:16:40

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Historian Ronnie Grinberg's new book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals couldn't be better "Know Your Enemy" fodder. (Main characters include: Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, Diana and Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, and Mary McCarthy!) These writers, Grinberg shows, built and sustained a novel, secul…

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Taxes are FUN, Just ask the IRS (A Conversation with IRS Program Analyst Kristen Deazeley) 48:34

4M ago48:34

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Paying taxes sucks. We all know that. But the IRS doesn’t see it that way. In truth, the IRS expects us all to pay our taxes, but they really only want us to pay what we owe, no more, no less. And the IRS really will help you pay the correct amount. Kristien Deazeley of the IRS explains. GoodGovernmentShow.com IRS.gov/help Thanks to our sponsors: N…

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Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser] 3:41

4M ago3:41

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Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy It was inevitable that Know Your Enemy would eventually discuss Arguing the World, the 1998 documentary about four Jewish intellectuals who emerged from the alcoves and arguments of City College in the 1930s…

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Bringing a Passion to Health Care 42:02

4M ago42:02

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Don’t lock ‘em up, heal them up... Jim Cavanaugh is a county commissioner in Douglas County, Nebraska. Out in Omaha his passion project is making sure people who need mental health assistance aren’t just tossed in jail. He says not only does it not get them the care they need, but it simply costs more. So listen to his solutions and where to get a …

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Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome (w/ B.D. McClay) 1:18:42

5M ago1:18:42

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Why are Republicans and the right losing their minds over Taylor Swift, the gifted songwriter and globe-bestriding pop star? Why do they think her NFL-playing, Super Bowl-winning boyfriend is secretly gay—precisely because he's dating Taylor Swift? Why is this slice of Americana being portrayed as a deep-state op meant to hand the 2024 election to …

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American Dream on the American Border 40:01

5M ago40:01

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Manny Ruiz is the American dream. His parents came to American for a better life for their 11 children. A first generation American, Manny is now a Santa Fe County Arizona county commissioner. He sees a lot of things right at the border, but he also sees where and how things can and should improve. Listen to someone living their entire life at the …

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UNLOCKED: Keeping Up with the Bozells 1:34:15

5M ago1:34:15

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What can four generations of men named "L. Brent Bozell" tell us about the trajectory of modern American conservatism? Well, quite a lot. In this classic KYE bonus episode from February 2021, newly unlocked for these last weeks of Lent, Matt and Sam discuss one of the first families of the postwar right, which ends up being a story about faith, fan…

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Grabbers (This Year's Saint Paddy's Day Recommend) 3:29

5M ago3:29

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Grabbers trailer: https://youtu.be/uC4GlNAD5ZA?si=XeNls7rPe7gxuhE0 Dead Harvey links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dead_harvey/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deadharvey YouTube: @deadharvey Intro and outro music by Tony Longworth. http://tonylongworth.com/freemusic/By Brad Paulson

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Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators (w/ Jacob Heilbrunn) 1:26:21

5M ago1:26:21

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The right's romance with odious foreign dictators didn't start with Putin or Viktor Orbán, and their profound contempt for democracy long predates January 6. In his new book, America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Jacob Heilbrunn traces this tradition on the right—in many ways their most deeply rooted and enduring tr…

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Immigration at the border in El Paso 51:07

5M ago51:07

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David Stout is a county commissioner in El Paso, Texas. The only crisis he sees at his border is a humanitarian crisis. Every day he deals with migrant issues and regularly visits his migrant processing center and talks with migrants and hears their stories. It’s an eye-opening conversation with someone on the front lines of the immigration situati…

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A Remedy for Envy? René Girard Redux [TEASER] 2:59

5M ago2:59

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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 return to René Girard via Pope Francis—whom Matt personally met at a recent general audience at the Vatican, and whose homily at that audience addressed the problem of envy, and what Christianit…

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René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz) 1:39:44

6M ago1:39:44

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The late René Girard, former Stanford professor of literature and mentor to Peter Thiel, is having something of a moment on the right these days—as Sam Kriss recently put it in a Harper's essay, Girard's name is being "dropped on podcasts and shoved into reading lists," and "Girardianism has become a secret doctrine of a strange new frontier in rea…

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Beware! The Devil's Wrath (Interview With Director Craig Meinhart & Actors Sean Carrigan & Terence Banks) 23:22

6M ago23:22

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Director Craig Meinhart & Actors Sean Carrigan & Terence Banks join us to discuss their plans for making a feature occult revenge horror film from their short, Beware! The Devil's Wrath. Beware! The Devil's Wrath website: https://www.bewarethedevilswrath.com/ Dead Harvey links: YouTube: @deadharvey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dead_harvey/ …

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Thinking the "Far Right" [Teaser] 4:01

6M ago4:01

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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 return to some historiographic questions from our episode with Kim Phillips-Fein — especially how to think the relationship between "right" and "far right" — and then discuss the troubling retur…

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Project 2025: Building a "Better" Trump Administration 1:26:37

7M ago1:26:37

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As listeners might have noticed, 2024 is a presidential election year, and already the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power is looming over the campaign and the media's coverage of it. In a second term, Trump has promised to weaponize the Justice Department to punish his enemies, deconstruct major portions of the administrative state, and mo…

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[TEASER] The Politics of Seinfeld (w/ Gabe Winant and Jesse Brenneman) 4:12

7M ago4:12

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Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Journeyman actor Peter Crombie, who appeared in films such as Seven, Born on the Fourth of July, and Natural Born Killers, died earlier this month, on January 10, 2024, at the age of 71. But his most famous,…

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The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein) 1:06:54

7M ago1:06:54

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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 b…

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Tommy Calvert Stands tall in Texas 54:29

7M ago54:29

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Tommy Calvert is a Bexar County Texas Commissioner. And he doesn’t just stand out because he’s tall. He stands out because he gets things done. Not just in his home of San Antonio, Texas, but as you will hear around the world. GoodGovernmentShow.com Bexar.org Thanks to our sponsors: National Association of Counties (NACo) Kutztown University Ourco …

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Tom Wolfe (w/ Osita Nwanevu) [TEASER] 3:06

8M ago3:06

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Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy Writer Osita Nwanevu joins for a rip-roaring conversation about legendary prose stylist, "new journalist," and novelist Tom Wolfe. Reviewing a new documentary about Wolfe ("Radical Wolfe" on Netflix), Osita …

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Crisis Management in Buffalo with Mark Polencarz 41:26

8M ago41:26

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First a racist shooting left 10 dead. Then a once a century blizzard left 31 dead. Through it all Erie County New York executive Mark Polencarz managed the county through two tragic crises. Hear how he did it. GoodGovernmentShow.com SonomaCounty.CA.gov Thanks to our sponsors: National Association of Counties (NACo) Kutztown University Ourco Executi…

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Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker) 1:28:19

8M ago1:28:19

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For our final main episode of 2023, we're dipping back into the Wills well to discuss Garry's under-appreciated 2010 book, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. Joining us is our great friend Erik Baker, lecturer in the History of Science Department at Harvard University and an editor at The Drift magazine. In Bomb Powe…

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The Man Behind The Monster Suit (Daniel Florio From Troma's Upcoming, "Caterkillar") 36:23

8M ago36:23

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Caterkillar Indiegogo link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/caterkillar-feature-horror-comedy#/ Dead Harvey links: YouTube: @deadharvey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dead_harvey/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deadharvey Intro and outro music by Tony Longworth. *Indie filmmakers: visit this website for free music for your projects: ht…

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