What Do Conservative Intellectuals Do? (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser]

Podcast: Know Your Enemy · Matthew Sitman

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. In this episode we talk to our friend John Ganz about the nature and function of conservative intellectuals—or "intellectuals," whichever you prefer—past and present. In particular, the Trump era has been a kind of real-time experiment in seeing how rightwing writers and second-hand dealers in ideas degrade, contort, and reinvent themselves. From there we consider what intellectuals, right and left, actually do and what influence, if any, they (we?) have, and how that's changed from the halcyon days of midcentury generalists to o...