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)
141 w/ Eli Lake - "Muller Report, Julian Assange, Deep State Grifters "
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140 w/ Ben Dreyfuss - "Muller Who, Jill Abramson's Privilege , True Hollywood St...
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139 w/ Andrew Sullivan "Civil Rights, Immigration, Julian Assange, Too Many Pope...
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138 w/ Aaron Maté "Russiagate Victory Lap, Visiting Venezuela, Super Gaye Music"
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137 "Use Your Collusion I and II, Jussie Smollett Walks"
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136 w/ Tina Nguyen "Islamists v White Nationalists, Segregated Schools, 2020 Hop...
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135 "Privileged College Parents, Platform Revoked"
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134 w/ Andrew Yang “The Universal Basic Income (and a few other things besides)"
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133 “Canceling Neverland (and everything else), They're All Socialist Now"
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132 w/ Mark Weisbrot “Venezuela: Failed State or Coup D'etat?"
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131 “Jussie Smollett Indicted, Hate Crimes, Hacks in the Newsroom, Bernie"
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130 “The Jill Abramson Affair, Jewish Money, Indentured Servitude"
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129 w/ Brendan O'Neill “ Yellow Vests, Subway Sandwiches, Mostly Free Speech"
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128 “A BOMBSHELL (If True), Punching MAGA Teens, Venezuela"
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127 w/ Brian Stelter “The Holy Order of Journalism, Excommunicating Steve King"
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126 “Trump's Fence, Dating Ocasio-Cortez, Shaun King's Crusade”
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125 w/ Ben Smith “The (Syrian) Withdrawal Method, Journalistic Imperatives”
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124 w/ Yascha Mounk "The People vs Democracy, Beyond Nationalism and Identity Po...
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123 w/ Michael Barbaro and Jody Avirgan "Live at the Comedy Cellar in NYC"
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122 w/ Kevin Roose “Russiagate Reloaded, Facebook, Google, China"
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121 “On Anti-Racism w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatt...
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120 "Everything* You Need Know About The 2018 Midterms, Serious Journalism, The...
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119 w/ Noah Rothman “Political Violence and The Great Disillusionment”
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118 “A Conversation w/ Sarah Haider: Identity, Apostasy and Islam”
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117 w/ Josh Szeps "Saudi Business, Proud Boys v. Antifa"
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116 w/ Harry Siegel "Soros' Paid Protest Mobs, Team Woke vs Team Resentment"
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115 w/ Bari Weiss "Kavanaugh, Believing Her, Abercrombie & Fitch Forever"
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114 "Notes on Moynihan's European Excursion, The Kavanaugh Hearings"
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113 "McCain's Eulogy, Louis CK's Resurrection, Monkeying Things Up"
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112 "Cohen, Manafort, and the Inveterate Liar Defense"
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111 w/ Jesse Singal "Dangerous Convos, Unite the Right 2, The War on Journalism"
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110 w/ Jessica Tarlov "Purging Alex Jones, Antifa in Portland, Kmele at MSNBC"
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109 "Moynihan Meets D'Souza, NYT Controversy, Manafort on Trial"
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108 w/ Jane Coaston "Conservative Proclivities, Ridicule Over Censorship"
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107 w/ Ben Domenech "On Acting, Russian Indictments, Putin and Trump, Just Say T...
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106 w/ Ken 'Popehat' White and Damon Root "Justice Kennedy Quits, Various Other...
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105 w/ Michael Tracey "Immigration Upset, Child Separation, Very Bad Things"
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104 "When Trump met Kim, Neo Confederates, Strictly 4 My Sniglets"
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103 w/ Josh Zepps "Kim Kardashian: Humanitarian, Presidential Privileges, Primat...
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102 w/ Jacob Mchangama "Clear and Present Danger"
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101 “Israel vs Palestine, IDW Skepticism, The Very Best Writer Alive”
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100 “In Defense of Red-Pill Kanye West, Trump Subpoena, Press Freedom Day”
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099 “A Conversation w/ Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying”
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098 “Joy Reid's LGBT Issues, Kanye's Red Pill, Two Black Guys Walk Into a Starbu...
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097 “Facebook Hearings, Gas Attacks, Abortion & Murder, Race & IQ” w/ Kat Timpf...
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096 w/ Amy Chua "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations" (Spec...
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095 "March for Our Lives, How to Journalist, So Moonshined" w/ Tom Slater and Ti...
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094 w/ Jody Avirgan "Enhanced Interrogation, Free Speech, Twitter Mobs"
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093 "Flirting w/ North Korea, Back Channeling w/ Stormy Daniels"
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092 "Hopeless Gun Debates, Bulletproof Oscar Predictions" w/ Sonny Bunch and And...
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