In Bed With The Right

The second part of Moira and Adrian's long conversation with Matt Sitman of Know Your Enemy [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-your-enemy/id1462703434] on Roy Cohn -- lawyer to various deplorables, closet case and mentor to a young Donald Trump. This part deals with Cohn's return to New York, his work for the mob, the Church, and the drugs. Here are the books and documentaries we discuss in this first half: -- Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn (1988) -- Ivy Meeropol (dir.), Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019) -- Matt Tyrnauer (dir.), Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

Moira and Adrian are joined by Matt Sitman of Know Your Enemy [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-your-enemy/id1462703434] to discuss the life of Roy Cohn -- lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire. This first part deals with Cohn's childhood, the Rosenberg trial, and his time with Sen. McCarthy. Here are the books and documentaries we discuss in this first half: -- Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn [https://archive.org/details/citizenco00vonh/page/n7/mode/2up] (1988) -- Ivy Meeropol (dir.), Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9308256/] (2019) -- Matt Tyrnauer (dir.), Where's My Roy Cohn? [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7193362/] (2019) -- Christopher M. Elias, Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo37630225.html](2021) -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet [https://www.ucpress.edu/books/epistemology-of-the-closet-updated-with-a-new-preface/paper] (1990)

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. Reminder: We're going month by month for these episodes. This second installment covers March 15 to April 15.

When it comes to the protagonists of MAGA world, they -- like Roxette circa 1990 -- have THE LOOK. You know the one: hair that rises and crests like a mountain range, lips that are strangely beige and eyes that really show off how dead the person is on the inside. How did this style come to define the modern conservative aesthetic? What are its influences? What are its messages? Jessica DeFino (of The Review of Beauty [https://jessicadefino.substack.com/]fame) stops by In Bed with the Right to help Moira and a very lost Adrian make some sense of these and other questions.

Germany 1933 is having a bit of a moment. Which made us at In Bed with the Right decide to explore that year in detail. In this series, Adrian and Moira tell the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. We will be going month by month for these episodes, but this first installment cheats a little bit and covers January 1 to March 15.