The Fifth Column
Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com
Notable Guests
Episodes (694)
188 “On Anti-Racism II w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Ch...
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187 w/ Bari Weiss "Karens in the Ramble, Section 230"
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186 w/ Balaji Srinivasan, Conor Friedersdorf - "Predicting Pandemics, Fixing Jou...
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185 w/ Ethan Strauss - "What's the Matter With Michael Jordan"
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184 w/ Rep Justin Amash - "The Case for the Spoiler*"
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183 w/ Glenn Greenwald - "Pandemic Censorship + Close Encounters"
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182 w/ Jonah Goldberg - "President Goop's Ultralight Beam Vaccine"
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181 w/ Zaid Jilani, Coleman Hughes "On Pandemic Raceism"
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180 w/ Bari Weiss: "We're All Sinologist Now"
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Episode 179: "A Most Racist Pandemic, Failure to Test"
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Episode 178: "The Great American Shut In, Authoritarianism and Liberty Fetishism...
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Episode 177: "More COVIDAPALOOZA, We're Inside the Plane, Matt Lovingly Fingers...
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Episode 176: "My Corona; Pat Foster, Armed and in the Wilderness; and Delicious...
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Episode 175 w/ Ross Douthat "Apocolypse via Decadence, Coronavirus, or Porn"
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Episode 174 w/ Eli Lake "Biden Surges, Chris Matthews, The FBI Scandal"
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Episode 173 w/ Aaron Maté "Bernie's Campaign Math, From Cuba to Medicare for All...
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Episode 172 "The Swamp, The POTUS, The Press" w/ Swin Suebsaeng, Lachlan Markay
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Episode 171 w/ Jesse Singal "Biden's Ebony Firewall, No BBQ Sauce in American Di...
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Episode 170: "Trump’s Best Week Ever, Iowa Pile Up"
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Episode 169: "I'm so sorry this is happening to YOU"
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Episode 168 w/ Miriam Elder: "Does Anything Matter Anymore?"
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Episode 167 w/ Noah Rothman “ The Case for F*ckin Iran Right Up”
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Episode 166: “Buttigieg Loves Drugs, Soleimani Canceled, Media Malpractice”
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165 w/Conor Friedersdorf “Mayhem in Jersey City, Foreign Affairs, Gesture Politi...
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164 "UK Elections, Afghan Papers, Prophylactic Impeachment"
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163 "Kamala Quits, NATO Splinters, Impeachments for All"
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162 w/ Errol Morris "Steve Bannon, American Dharmam"
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161 "Unimpeachably Guilty, ILoveFiona, Democratic Debate"
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160 "Pub Hopping, Impeachment Hearings, Roger Stone Goes down"
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159 - w/ Bari Weiss "How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Shifting Political Baggage"
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158 - w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams "Unlearning Race"
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157 - w/ Meghan Daum "The Problem With Everything"
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156 - w/ Walt Hickey "China Cancels the NBA, Trump Cancels the Kurds"
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155 - "Unforgivable, The Swampiest Swamp, DC Star Wars Bar"
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154 - "Still Teflon Don, Moynihan's Emmy, Vaping Panic"
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153 - "Moderate Chic, NYT's Kavanaugh Follies, Our Pal Corn Pop"
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152 - w/ Steve Kornacki "Straight News, Political Tribalism, Chappell's Sticks &...
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151 - "That 1619 Project, Liturgical Journalism, The Batshit Presidency"
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150 - "Churn-alism, The Epstein Suicide (?), Effective Conspiracy Mongering"
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149 - w/ Jon Ronson "Porn Stars, Psychopaths, Cancel Culture"
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148 - w/ Ben Dreyfuss "Mueller Talks, Send Em' Back, Al Franken, A$AP Rocky v. S...
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147 - w/ Molly Jong-Fast "Trump's Social Media Summit, Journalistic Scuttlebutt"
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146 - w/ Patrick Radden Keefe "Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' and a notorious mur...
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145 - "Dem Debates, Plan B for Iran, History for Nincompoops"
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144 - w/ Coleman Hughes "Reparations, Congressional Testimony, Rap Battles"
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143 - "How to Get Arrested In Brooklyn, We're All Left Wing Hacks Now"
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142 - "The Great Deplatforming, Conspiracy Chic, The Mr. Bean Presidency"
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