Dig: Conservative Intelligentsia with Sam Adler-Bell & Matt Sitman

Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia. Listen to Know Your Enemy, their really great podcast on the American Right, wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up on Patreon for bonus episodes: patreon.com/knowyourenemy (patreon.com/knowyourenemy) Recommended reading and listening: "What’s left of liberalism? Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us." By Sam Adler-Bell (https://theoutline.com/post/7687/what-is-left-of-liberalism-ahmari-french) "Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion" (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-13-what-happened-to-norman-with-david-klion) "I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong." By Rick Perlstein (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/magazine/i-thought-i-understood-the-american-right-trump-proved-me-wrong.html) "The dark history of Donald Trump's rightwing revolt." By Timothy Shenk (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/16/secret-history-trumpism-donald-trump) "The Year the Clock Broke." By John Ganz (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-year-the-clock-broke-ganz) "Anti-'68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right." By Quinn Slobodian (https://www.academia.edu/39530020/Anti-68ers_and_the_Racist-Libertarian_Alliance_How_a_Schism_among_Austrian_School_Neoliberals_Helped_Spawn_the_Alt_Right) "Leaving Conservatism Behind: How I renounced the God-and-guns conservatism of my blue-collar roots and embraced class politics." By Matt Sitman (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/leaving-conservatism-behind-blue-collar-republican-progressive) Join the Dig Book Club and zoom with Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club (thedigradio.com/dig-book-club). Watch their doc You Are Not a Loan here (https://theintercept.com/2021/01/25/student-debt-you-are-not-a-loan-film/). Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig (Patreon.com/TheDig)