Know Your Enemy

You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag episode)

Episode Summary

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

Episode Notes

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)

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