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Know Your Enemy

You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Duration
1h 10m
Broadcast on
30 Nov 2022
Audio Format
other

As the end of the year approaches, Matt and Sam are once again answering questions from you, their beloved listeners. Like previous mailbag episodes, there was an abundance of excellent questions that were submitted. Topics include: the possibilities for the religious left, white Christian nationalism, your hosts' literary habits and favorite novels, conspiracy theories—and more. For those who especially enjoy this type of episode, check out the next KYE bonus episode on Patreon, which will take up even more listener questions!

Sources:

Hannah Gold, "The Loud Parts," Harper's, October 2022

Jewish Currents, "The Jews" (On the Nose podcast episode), November 23, 2022

Alastair Roberts, "On Thomas Achord," Alastair's Adversaria, November 27, 2022

Rod Dreher, "The Thomas Achord – Alastair Roberts Mess," The American Conservative, November 27, 2022

Matthew Sitman, "Whither the Religious Left?" New Republic, April 15, 2021

Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999 (2002)

Breece D'J Pancake, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (2002)

Breece D'J Pancake, "Trilobites," The Atlantic, December 1977

Andre Dubus, Selected Stories (1995)

Janet Malcolm, "I Should Have Made Him for a Dentist," New York Review of Books, March 2018

John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Art Shay, Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century (2000)

...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes

All right, listeners, welcome to episode 65 of Know Your Enemy. I'm Matt Sippen, your podcast co-host, and I'm here with my great friend, Sam Adlerbo. Hey, Sam. Hi, Matt. I'm excited for this one. You know, we do this once a year. It's our annual mailbag episode. That's right. We're opening up the mailbag. We're going to get some questions from people named John and Matt and Jack. That's right. Yeah, so I checked, Sam. And the last time we did one of these was in December of 2021, so just under a year ago, we opened this up to our listeners, and we're going to answer your questions. And we should say we did favor our Patreon subscribers. That's right. We did our special, most dedicated and devoted listeners. If you want to get priority in your questions being answered on future mailbag episodes, let me just say you can sign up on patreon.com/knowyourademy. That's right. And if you're a new listener and if you've never gone back through our catalog of past episodes and listened to a mailbag episode, these are kind of wide-ranging listeners ask us about politics, about the right, of course, but also this time a lot of religious questions. Yeah. Always questions about literature, what we're reading, fiction, those kinds of things. We didn't get any questions about bourbon this time, as far as I know, which was a disappointment. If you want to make sure your question gets answered on the air, ask us about Brown Licker. Well, Sam preempted my housekeeping items. But as he said, for $5 a month, if you subscribe to knowyourademyonpatreon.com/knowyourademy, you get access to all of our bonus episodes. But as always, we're grateful to our partners at Descent, who sponsor the podcast. And one thing Descent does for us is that if you subscribe for $10 a month, you get access to not only all of our bonus episodes, but you also get a digital subscription to Descent. And, you know, in this holiday season, as we're entering it, when people are thinking about donating to various causes or organizations, that kind of thing, I did want to flag something for our listeners about Descent, which is that from now until the end of the year, they're offering these limited time gifts if you donate to the magazine. And these are one time donations. If you donate $50, you get a tote bag designed by working socialist artist, Tabitha Arnold. For $250, you get the tote bag plus a selection of books curated by Descent's editors. And for $500, a one-time, $500 donation, you get invited on a guided walking and eating tour of New York City's Lower East Side, learn about the history and culture that makes the neighborhood one of the world's greatest eating destinations. This was the promo language I was given. But I think Sam and I, I'm not sure of the timing, but I think we might try to go on that. Yeah. I want to eat my way through the Lower East Side.

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Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.