Know Your Enemy Creators & Guests

Sam Adler-Bell is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation. He has a background in journalism, community organizing, and policy advocacy at the intersections of economic justice, race, and civil liberties. As a campaigner with the advocacy group Demand Progress, he coordinated nationwide campaigns to safeguard privacy and Internet freedom in an age of rampant surveillance. His writing on the labor movement, surveillance, and corruption has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in American History from Brown University.

Dr. Matthew Sitman is a journalist and political commentator. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of Commonweal. He co-hosts the podcast "Know Your Enemy."Sitman was raised in central Pennsylvania and attended Grove City College. He received his Ph.D. in political theory from Georgetown University. He taught in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia and, most recently, was the literary editor of the popular news and culture website, The Dish.

Dr. Beverly Gage is a historian, specializing in American political history, government and political development, and ideology and social movements. Currently, she a Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine.Previouisly, Gage was the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale.Gage's work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Nation, and the Washington Post. Her first book, "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror," was published in 2009. Her second book, "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," was published in 2022.Gage received her B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University.In September 2021, she announced that she would resign as director of the Grand Strategy program, effective December 2021, citing concerns about academic freedom and a "board of visitors" that was formed to oversee her work.[4] In an interview with The New York Times, she stated, "It’s very difficult to teach effectively or creatively in a situation where you are being second-guessed and undermined and not protected." On October 1, 2021, the Yale history department issued a statement in support of her.[5]

Michael Liroff is a lawyer and host of the podcast "5-4."Liroff received his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law, and his B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College.

Michelle Nickerson is an historian and author. Currently, she is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses on the history of women and gender, U.S. politics, social movements, cities and suburbs, and American religion. Nickerson's first book, "Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right," was published in 2012. She also co-authored a volume of essays called "Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region," which was published in 2011.

David Roth is an editor at Deadspin, and host of Deadcast.

Shuja Haider is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, music director, and record producer.

Brandy Jenson is a writer and editor who has gained popularity writing for The Outline, Vice, Extra Crispy, Thrillist, and The Cut. Currently, she is Features Editor for The Outline, where she writes the "Ask A Fuck-Up" column.

Dorothy Fortenberry is a television writer and producer, known for her work on the television show "The Handmaid's Tale."Fortenberry is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama.

Sam Tanenhaus is a historian, biographer, and journalist. Currently, he writes for Prospect.Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from, then a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, then editor of The New York Times Book Review. He is a visiting professor at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where he virtually teaches courses on American politics and media studies.Tanenhaus's first book, "Literature Unbound," was publised in 1986. In 1997, his biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College and his M.A. in English Literature from Yale University.

Michael Hobbes is an American journalist and a former reporter for HuffPost. He is also the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and the former co-host of You're Wrong About

John Ganz is a freelance writer.

Peter Beinart is a columnist, journalist, and political commentator.

Nate Hochman is an intern at National Review.

Author: The World Cannot Give; Social Creature; Strange Rites

Peter Shamshiri is a lawyer and host of the podcast "5-4."

Osita Nwenavu is a staff writer at The New Republic.

Maximillian Alvarez is a writer and podcaster. He received his BA and graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago in 2009, then received an M.Phil at the University of Bristol in the UK in 2011. He is currently a dual-PhD candidate in the departments of History and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He’s unapologetically socialist and obsessed with his cats.He is the author of a regular column titled “The Poverty of Theory” in The Baffler. His writing has been featured in a number of publications, including the Times Higher Education, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ROAR magazine, and Electric Literature. His focus is bringing the basic skills of literary and historical study to bear on the weird contradictions of the the world of politics.

Kate Aronoff is a senior fellow at Data for Progress and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.