Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfillment could be made real.
Dissent
Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism
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[NYC EVENT | September 4] Gospel of the Working Class
An exhibition of tapestries by Tabitha Arnold.
Authoritarianism and Resistance
A preview of our Fall 2025 issue.
The Women’s Basketball Boom
An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?
Damage Control in the Roberts Era
Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Know Your Enemy: The Minority Voters Moving Right
Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.
Is America a Democracy?
An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far?
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance
A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
The Painter of the Right
Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man
Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.