Know Your Enemy: The Enemy Within, with Brandy Jensen

Writer, editor, and advice columnist Brandy Jensen answers listener questions about how to be a person again (or for the first time) after the pandemic.

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, rate, and review to the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.

For a slight change of pace, we invited our dear friend Brandy Jensen — author of the world’s best advice column, Jezebel‘s Ask a Fuck-Up, and features editor at the new Gawker.com — to answer listener questions about reentering the world post-vaccine, dating, conservative relatives, whether the “Trad Caths” are right, and mourning the lives we did not live.

As you’ll see, we ended up addressing many classic Know Your Enemy themes — mercy, redemption, humility, etc. — and we had a great time doing it. Thank you to everyone who wrote in with such intimate and profound questions. You’re all very beautifully fucked-up.

Sources and further reading:

Adam Philips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life, Macmillan, 2013

Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, October 3, 2020

Brandy Jensen, “Ask a Fuck-Up on a Fucked-Up Year,” Jezebel, December 31, 2020

…and don’t forget you can subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to all of our bonus episodes!

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