Know Your Enemy: The Long Struggle Against Equality in America
Know Your Enemy: The Long Struggle Against Equality in America
Know Your Enemy: The Long Struggle Against Equality in America
Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America.
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.
In this episode, we’re pleased to welcome back historian Kim Phillips-Fein, one of the truly outstanding observers of the right, past and present, working today, for a conversation about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America. It makes for a companion episode to our recent discussions on Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence, but this time about those who rejected equality: proponents of slavery, biological racists, captains of industry, and more, from the American founding through today’s tech billionaires like Peter Thiel.
Listen:
Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”
Listen Again:
The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein), Know Your Enemy (2024)
Sources:
Kim Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America (2026)
— Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (2017)
— Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (2009)
Steven Hahn, Illiberal America: A History (2024)
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It (1948)
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (1955)
…and don’t forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!
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