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A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, w/ cohosts @matthewsitman & @samadlerbell . Sponsored by @DissentMag . knowyourenemypodcast @gmail .com

New York, USA
Joined April 2019
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Know Your Enemy
3 years
In light of recent events, a thread of our favorite KYE episodes for new & eager to be initiated listeners. (Feel free to let us know which ones we're forgetting.) First off, our flurry of nuance on the Trump/Fascism debate:
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Effective immediately, we are suspending @SamAdlerBell from the podcast for saying "actually the Jews were persecuted for having too much swag." We’ve asked him to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of his comments.
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An update:
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Matt is safely holed up in Hell’s Kitchen with a month’s supply of MREs, but the enemy is at the gate. Don’t let cancel culture win. #FreeSitman .
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Matt is safely holed up in Hell’s Kitchen with a month’s supply of MREs, but the enemy is at the gate. Don’t let cancel culture win. #FreeSitman .
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Sam Adler-Bell
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What have they done to my beautiful boy?? @MatthewSitman
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Coming soon: 5-part, 10-hour special episode on this one Ben Garrison cartoon.
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Real Ben Garrison Cartoons
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"Thought @DarrenJBeattie might enjoy this!" Cartoon hQ at
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I prefer this characterization to “Chapo but not cool or funny” which is probably more accurate.
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William B. Fuckley
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@KnowYrEnemyPod is a really good and smart podcast you should be listening to. It’s Chapo but only the smart episodes, with people who actually know what they’re talking about. Killer soundtrack too.
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As discussed on the latest KYE w @Econ_Marshall , they don't want to "open the economy." They want to throw the bodies of service and industrial workers directly at the virus for profit. It's an eliminationist class war against those who cannot "work from home" by those who can.
@adamjohnsonCHI
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Impressive how quickly “open the economy” became a phrase every media outlet & pundit just decided was a neutral, anodyne descriptor rather than a horrific rightwing euphemism for condemning 100,000s of workers, disproportionately African-American, to death for corporate profits
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real heads know...
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Here’s a dumb question I’ve never seen asked: Whats the best podcast theme song? Most of them are public domain guitar jangles so I want to cast a wide net. My all-time nominee is @bestshow4life but current champ is @YourKickstarter .
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My bad
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David K.
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@KnowYrEnemyPod I'm just re-listening some of your earlier episodes and having a blast. The German Philosopher "Fichte" is pronounced "fish-te" for an American. A Fichte is a tree - a spruce. But the way you pronounced his name - "fickte" - means "fucked" in past tense xD
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Our latest episode! An in-depth discussion with ACT UP veteran @peterstaley on the history of AIDS activism, America’s pandemic response, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s complex role in both.
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Matt and Sam podcasting:
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🎶 Curb Theme Music 🎶
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Know Your Enemy boys. We're grateful for some of the nerdiest and most generous listeners out there!
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The KYE crew does The Dig
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This is a good one: my really truly very wide-ranging @thedigradio interview with @SamAdlerBell and @MatthewSitman on the history of conservative intelligentsia, what happened to it under Trump, and where it might go from here.
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Sam here! It’s true! (Not a joke about my bad tweets.)
@MatthewSitman
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Hey @TwitterSupport , it turns out that @SamAdlerBell 's account has been hacked. Please help if possible!
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We’re a little behind schedule this week; we’ve been working our producer to the bone, so we’re permitting him a spa day. However, we’ve got Nicole Hemmer ( @pastpunditry ) on Rush Limbaugh coming Tuesday!! 🙌
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host your own KYE dinner party starter kit
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@DCC_DMAP
28-Year-Old Tooth Fairy Believer
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Not to simp or whatever but I just wanna have a dinner party with the same vibe as a @KnowYrEnemyPod episode
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Obrigado!
@viracasacas
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Indicação especial do podcast @KnowYrEnemyPod ! Great job guys, we love your podcast here in Brazil!
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@KnowYrEnemyPod
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NEW episode! It’s about one of the greatest books ever written about American politics, Garry Wills’s NIXON AGONISTES. It’s got it all: Nixon psycho-biography, reports from the campaign trail, the ‘68 conventions, Wallace, the Southern Strategy, & more
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Well, not that one
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beginning to think the Pod will not Save America
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“As @MatthewSitman and @SamAdlerBell have frequently suggested on their consistently excellent podcast about the American right… we need to pay attention to such talk and learn to interrogate it… What exactly is the American right giving itself permission to do?“
@GregTSargent
Greg Sargent
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Good piece by @DamonLinker detailing how the right's comprehensive unshackling of itself from any obligation to reality in depicting the leftist menace is designed to create "a permission structure for future action," justifying anything in response:
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In case you missed it: your hosts @MatthewSitman and @SamAdlerBell unpack "the fascism question" — and provide some aggressively nuanced answers:
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🚨🚨🚨 New episode dropping tomorrow 🚨🚨🚨
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Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended
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Let’s get some “congrats, Matt” going in the chat.
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Tash is a tireless, brilliant editor. I'm honored to be joining the Dissent editorial board as she takes the (co-) helm of a magazine that I love.
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American conservatism, c 2019
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👇
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Good idea for a podcast imo👇
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3 years
I know communists read theory and fascists read theory, but do liberals or conservatives read theory? Like, what's the principle theoretical text in modern conservatism? Who should I read if I'm trying to understand these ideologies in a "know thy enemy" sort of way
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asymmetric politics in action
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it's great that Trump will cheer for illegal protests undertaken against lockdown orders he himself backed, but @SpeakerPelosi won't spare a tweet for Amazon workers striking for their health and safety.
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Recorded a *barn burner* on the Bozells tonight. (Don't worry, @HeerJeet , we cited your Nation piece *and* got in the Menachem Begin.) We covered a lot of ground—and, perhaps, ended up in some unexpected places. Stay tuned!
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It’s a theme of the show!
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A twitter account? For a podcast?? Whoever heard of such a thing?! #innovators
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🚨🚨🚨 New @KnowYrEnemyPod 🚨🚨🚨
@MatthewSitman
Matthew Sitman 🥥🌴🇺🇸
3 years
For your listening pleasure, here's our deep-dive on Joan Didion's conservatism—her Sacramento roots, her early writing for National Review, why she loved Barry Goldwater (and hated Ronald Reagan), and much more. Our guest? The great Sam Tanenhaus. Enjoy!
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This is Matt. Unless otherwise stated, election night tweets from the KYE account will be me exorcising my anxiety and participating, with all of you, in the grand conversation that is Election Twitter
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Later this week, the National Review Institute will award the 2019 William F. Buckley Jr. Prize to...Rush Limbaugh!
@maggieNYT
Maggie Haberman
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Limbaugh tells his listeners that Trump’s withdrawal from Syria was all part of a ploy to throw people off the scent of the operation against Baghdadi.
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@JasonPMask @DavidAstinWalsh I was received into the Catholic Church as an adult, after being raised Baptist (Matt)
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If only there was a podcast (with handsome, articulate hosts) that explained the relationship between conservative ideas and conservative action...
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@lionel_trolling @SamAdlerBell perhaps! but I'd at least like them to nuke the account before samadlerbell starts selling PS5s again
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But it’s our niche!
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This one might be a little too niche
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that's the KYE lifestyle baby
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Word on the street is a bonus episode is dropping later this week...
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Happy holidays from the KYE team! (aka Sam and Matt)
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Some BIG interviews in the works...stay tuned.
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This what we’ve been talking about. Check out our “The Rise of the Illiberal Right” episode
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"There have been more than a few irregularities. They have been substantiated," Gov Bevin says, explaining his decision to not concede the #KyGov election. "We want the process to be followed." ^JC
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Word on the street is that a new episode’s dropping tomorrow...
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New episode: An intimate and nuanced conversation with @maximillian_alv about conservatism’s appeal to the working class — beyond “false consciousness.”
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The sheer weirdness of Joan Quigley’s role in the Reagan White House should be talked about more than it is
@HooverArchives
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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We're star struck by these natal star charts for Oprah and Prince Harry prepared by Nancy Reagan's astrologer, Joan Quigley. Was this week's interview in their destiny? #PrinceHarry #MeghanMarkle #OprahMeghanHarry
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@NotEasyAnswers I hear you. We try our best, which is not always very good. And we accept that those episodes are not for everyone. (-Sam)
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🎶 Curb Theme Music 🎶
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My friends, please report this tweet and my account as hacked. Wild that people get suspended immediately for saying "fuck" to a politician, but this shit has been going on for an hour. (-SAB)
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An excerpt from our conversation with @jbouie on this subject...
@Yamiche
Yamiche Alcindor
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Pres Trump gearing up to attack 1619 in his speech today. He is expected to say, “Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda—an ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together.”
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Someone please start some Podcast Drama involving us?
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*IF* we know enough Sam and I will be recording a reax ep tonight, FYI
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~~ sincere tweet filter ~~ We held an exclusive video meeting for some elite @KnowYrEnemyPod subscribers (John Birch Tier...) last night, and I have to say, if that group was representative, we have the kindest and most thoughtful listeners in the game.
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🚨 Recording a new episode tomorrow 🚨 We’ll be joined by our first guest: the great @PatBlanchfield !
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Jesus christ. This is insane. Report this tweet too. How does one get @Twitter to nuke your hacked account? (-Sam)
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Good pod alert
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Surely with all the goodwill I’ve accumulated on this website, many will rush to my aid! (-Sam)
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A reflection on the afterlife of the 1/6 siege on the US capitol, examining how different factions of the right and left have metabolized the event and its connection to resurgent anti-democratic forces in our political life.
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On George Scialabba, depression, and a left politics centered on vulnerability and interdependence:
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Know Your Enemy reading series on Claremont conservatism and cuckoldry!
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Not enough people listen to @KnowYrEnemyPod
@DanJTPitt
Dr Daniel Pitt
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Why is conservatism and its history so misunderstood?
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ICYMI, hosts @MatthewSitman and @SamAdlerBell reflect on depression, frailty, mutual obligation, and what we all deserve. (An episode released from the Patreon archive. Subscribe for more like this!)
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People, people. Matt read Saving the Queen in college, and eventual episodes on WFB’s fiction (and not only his) have been in the works for awhile
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*subscribes immediately*
@fivefourpod
5-4 Podcast
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This week is our first premium, subscriber-only episode, on the life and work of our friend Antonin Scalia. Subscribe @ our link in bio to hear about: - his eating habits - his household rules on kids’ attire - the lessons he learned from the hit TV show 24 - some legal stuff
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If DeSantis runs, how long til Trump calls him a groomer?
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WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS, now out in paperback!
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Can you tell I voted before I had my coffee?
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@PatrickDeneen We discussed this. (So it's slightly odd that you're acting like we didn't.) Again, I think you'd find, if you listen to the episode, that Matt is entirely fair to you and still as decent as ever.
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@johnthorntonjr @PatrickDeneen @SamAdlerBell @MatthewSitman Sam here (Matt’s commie cohost): I’d love for you to listen to some episodes, Patrick, and see what you think. The title is tongue in cheek, and Matt is just as generous (intellectually and personally) as you remember him!
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Many are saying.
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Makes a good Sunday listen! And hang tight for our bonus ep (should be out Mon or Tues) that’s Sam and I drinking bourbon and talking about...Ronald Reagan
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Sam Tanenhaus joins the @KnowYrEnemyPod boys to talk about William F. Buckley Jr’s campaign for mayor of NYC—and much else
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Because somebody asked: Sitman is alive and taking a break from twitter (because he is wise, unlike us sinners).
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🚨 Some important news 🚨
@DissentMag
Dissent Magazine
5 years
Announcing a new partnership! @DissentMag is proud to partner with @KnowYrEnemyPod , a new podcast about the American right, hosted by @MatthewSitman and @SamAdlerBell
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If only there were a podcast which had for several months been exploring the emerging fault lines in movement conservatism, including the Ahmari/French divide...
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@DavidKlion @brianbeutler @NoahCRothman @Commentary this is the bog standard line of anti-trump conservatives: Dems created Trump by accusing GOP/tea-party of being racist during the Obama years.
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Don’t we know it!
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@dan_sinykin @SamAdlerBell this actually happened to me once before. after which, i set up two-factor verification. but apparently Musk got rid of that function for people who don't pay. (which, if you think about it, is sort of like a protection racket.)
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And if you wanna hear the purest uncut shit, please subscribe on Patreon for the bonus episodes. Including: the Bozell family saga, Hitchens, Gore Vidal, Critical Race Theory, and all the eps with @davidrkadler (who's not allowed in front of the paywall).
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New bonus episode for patrons. We discuss @MatthewSitman ’s latest essay on depression and try to imagine a politics premised on human frailty. 🥳🥳
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Happy Thanksgiving to all @KnowYrEnemyPod listeners! We’re grateful for the love so many have shown us since we started the podcast—especially our comrades at @DissentMag , who now sponsor it, & our clutch Patreon subscribers. Here’s the latest ep!
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Can you imagine what kind of sicko would call a political opponent an "enemy" ?!
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Count on it.
@ayforget
André
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Really hope this blockbuster @newrepublic piece means there's a @lionel_trolling appearance on @KnowYrEnemyPod in the offing.
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Our special boy…
@Jesse_Brenneman
Jesse Brenneman
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AVAILABLE NOW
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What do people want from the KYE Twitter account? Witty observations? Links to what we’re reading? Jeet Heer-like threads?
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This looks terrible.
@Regnery
Regnery Publishing
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"Kevin Williamson is not afraid of overpowering people with his strong personality. [The Smallest Minority] is an irreverent overview of social media and the ways that they enable a mob to stamp out independent thinking." —5-star Amazon review OUT NOW 🔥
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The rumors are not true. We are not signing with HBO to turn the podcast into a televised special. Negotiations broke down due to their strict “no beer or cigs on stage” rule.
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