“Aging Midwestern Conservative here, heartsick at the possibility that Donald Trump was the eventuality of conservatism all along.
Matt and Sam put together 12 episodes that demonstrated that they knew, and had some interesting insights, into conservatism.
Then in Episode 13 they retreated, with a third voice, into a snotty-snarky echo chamber, doing an interesting enough show on Norman Podhoretz’s 1965 Book “Making It,” but larding it with dubious asides about racism, sexism, white privilege, and even Donald Trump's supposed unconscious anti-semitism, about which they were almost entirely incoherent.
In other words, roughly what I expected from young progressives when I first listened and was surprised by something better than that.
I hope they didn't so shoot the wad in twelve episodes that inanity is going to be in heavy rotation from now on.”Read full review »
RWB in Indiana via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/17/20
“A long-form and smart podcast that takes its subject seriously and provides historical and cultural contexts for the conservative thinking that underpins our current and otherwise inexplicable political moment. It feels a bit like an excellent intro college seminar course, which to my mind is...”Read full review »
Harder Bop via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/15/19
“Just discovered this podcast and it stands alongside Citations Needed as key discourse in order to make sense of and understand the conservative mind.”
All Talker No Rocker via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
02/24/20