The Fifth Column

w/ Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair) - Tina's Theranos voice - Elizabeth Warren Holmes - Revisiting the Universal Basic Income (Kmele hasn't endorse UBI or Andrew Yang) - Technophobia, 'McDonald’s employees will murder you' - The Three-Fifths Column - Matt does Betomania - Getting it wrong on Iraq - The cycles of massacre reaction/coverage - Islamists v. White nationalists - Stuyvesant High School and Asi...

DESCRIPTION: - Kmele's in 'Frisco', Moynihan's hungover, Matt got lit up on Twitter - Desperate wealthy college parents headed to prison? - The injustice of legacy admissions - Elite colleges are overrated - Biden v. Beto - Venezuela's blackout and the three initials who shall not be named - Platforming vs de-platforming - Tucker Carlson's shock-jock period - National Review swinging (and missing)...

A discussion w/ entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful, Andrew Yang. We explore The Freedom Dividend, Yang's proposal to pay $1,000 per month to every American over the age of 18. Recorded: 3/6/2019 Published: 3/11/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...

- Smooth Criminals, "Leaving Neverland" Skepticism - Canceling Michael Jackson, R Kelly, and The Entire 1970s - All Hate Matters - Dual Loyalties - Bernie Sanders Marched for Civil Rights, He's Still "Too White" - Democratic Socialism** - Revisiting Moynihan v. Weisbrot - Some Idiot Wrote This - Salman Rushdie Recorded: 3/5/2019 Published: 3/7/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out inf...

w/ Mark Weisbrot  Co-Director @ Center for Economic and Policy Research Author, "Failed: What the 'experts' got wrong about the global economy" - Visiting w/ Hugo Chavez + Sean Penn - Is "dictatorship" a hate word? - Venezuela's elections - Political prisoners - State violence or police violence - Coming coup? - Embargoes, sanctions, and the collapse of the economy - Who's to blame for hunger? - T...

- Jussie Smollett, Indicted (Kmele Totally Called That Shit) - But Then Again, The Whole Gang Totally Called That Shit Too - Coast Guard Neo-Nazi would-be terrorist arrested - Kmele and Liz Plank on "Reliable Sources" - Unreliable hate crime statistics - Social Justice Judo - CNN Hires Sarah Isgur Flores - Bill Moyers, Problematic Icon - Bernie Sanders, Front-runner - Some Idiot Wrote This - Downl...

(Plagiarism, Green Room Encounters, and All The Receipts) - We Need to Talk About Jill Abramson - Too Important to be a Plagiarist? - Rep Omar: You Might Be An Antisemitism, But Maybe Not - Blackface: The Highest Form of Flattery? - Klobuchar, FTW - Team AOC's Green New Deal Fiasco ALSO: - Moynihan Steps Out of Line - The Huxtable Compound - Indentured Servitude - 22 Savage - The Red Shoe Diaries...

w/ Brendan O'Neill (Editor in Chief, "Spiked") - Jussie Smollett - Stories For Every Narrative - Ralph Northam - Fancy Dress Parties - The Weird Man’s Burden - Anti Semitism, Hate Speech - Stormy or STORMZY - Yellow Vests Revolution   Recorded: PM 2/2/2019 Published: 2/4/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

- Jerry Brown - BuzzFeed's Bombshell? - Jason Leopold, Oliver Darcy - The Temple of Journalism - Anonymous Sourcing - Punching Catholic Kids - Stolen Valor, Callin' Bullshit ALSO: - Jill Abramson (Part 2) - "GUILTY" - By M.C. Moynihan - On Venezuela   Recorded: 1/22/2019 PM Published: 1/24/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...

"They're like a train -- a train that's always runnin' right on time." - Anonymous w/ Brian Stelter (Chief Media Corespondent, CNN) (Host, "Reliable Sources") - Moynihan Meets Ann Coulter (Again) - A Boy and His Blog - Authoritarian Storm Clouds - The Temple of Journalism - Is CNN in Resistance Mode? - Grading Trump on a Curve - Excommunicating Steve King ALSO: - Media Literacy - "Page One", and T...

"Smarter, harder, about the same length as usual." - Anonymous - The Border Fence Shutdown - Reasons to Dislike AOC - Tea Party Retrospective - Ellen Met Kevin - Jazmine Barnes, Shaun King, and Overconcen - Destroying The Weatherman - Race Price, New York City Public Schools, and Historical Fictions - Human Rights + Angela Davis Recorded: PM 1/9/2019 Published: 1/11/2019 See acast.com/privacy for...

w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News) - BuzzFeed's Day in Court - About That Dossier - Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism - Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History - Newsroom Diversity - Indisputably Racist ALSO: - Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control - The Best Laid Plans - Another Shutdown - GoFundMe Governance - Trust Issues Recorded: PM 12/22/2018 Published:...

w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight") - Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right) - Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- F...

Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City. With Guests: Michael Barbaro, "The Daily" (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, "30 for 30" and "The Five-Thirty-Eight Politics Podcast" (Five-Thirty-Eight, ESPN) "On Speech Controversies and The State of Journalism After Two Years of Trump." Recorded: 12/4/2018 (@ The Comedy Cellar in New York City)Published: 12/6/2018 S...

w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times) - *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores Recorded: PM 11/29/2018Published: 11/30/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subs...

Kmele facilitates a wide-ranging conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism. With: Glenn Loury - Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University - Host, The Glenn Show @ bloggingheads.tv Thomas Chatterton Williams- Author, "Losing My Cool"- Contributing writer @ New York Times Magazine. - National Fellow at New America, where he’s completing a new book project about ‘being th...

- Phallic Humor- "We'll Do It Live" (In NYC, Next Month)- The Midterms (For People Who Kind of Hate Midterms)- The "Fuck You" Vote- Beto, Gillum, Abrams- Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement- Trump vs. Acosta Part 5: 'Why can't they both lose?'- Trump: 'That's A Racist Question!'- Sessions, Out. Mueller, Next?- Cocaine Mitch Warns the Dems- Dog Whistles, Guilt by Association, David Duke- What Indiana Re...

w/ Noah Rothman (Associate Editor, Commentary -- Contributor, MSNBC/NBC News) Author of the forthcoming book: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019) - Plausible Deniability- Perspectives on Pipe Bombs and Synagogue Attacks- Speculation, Motive- Violence in a most Peaceful Era - The, Lou Dobbs- Persuading Donald Trump- The Populist Moment- Brazil- Egalitarian Jihadi Recorde...

A conversation with Sarah Haider - Origin Stories- Identity, Tribal Affiliation- Islam, Muslims, Apostasy, and Atheism- Difficult Conversations- The Intellectual Dark Web- Courage Recorded: July 22nd, 2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.co...

w/ Josh Szeps, (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of "#WeThePeople LIVE" and “The People Versus” (Recorded - 10/16/2018) - Australia's Sweetheart, but his father *was* even more famous- Kmele saw "First Man," Norman Mailer stabbed his wife- Kanye at the White House- This disappearing of Jamal Khashoggi- The end of American moral exceptionalism?- Doing business with the House of...

w/Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at The Daily Beast (Recorded - 10/10/2018) -Three Very Fine Bottles of Wine-Soros: boogeyman on a global scale-Anti-semitic dog whistles or nah?-Harry (literally) co-wrote the book on Rudy Giuliani-The era of conspiracy theory-Fact checkers suck-Trump's USA Today op-ed-Everyone hates P.C.—but what is P.C.?-Are the politically disengaged really the "center"?-Dying onli...

-Kanye West's very MAGA SNL Appearance-Getting Totally Kavanaugh Faced-Moynihan at the Mississippi Trump Rally-Believe All Women-Bari Would Have Hated Kavanaugh in High School-Kavanaugh's Kamikaze-Apocalypse Skeptic-Bari's New Book, "The New Seven Dirty Words" (Recorded October 2nd, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...

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Pusha T's new album and Whitney Huston's bathroom countertop. Bobby Brown's prerogative. Was it Maurice Starr (or) Lou Pearlman? Remembering a 'Mavric'*. Jack Shafer wrote a bad piece. You can’t criticize McCain, except when you totally can. Matt vs Antiwar libertarians. Immigration policy, racism, Trump and Europe. Hasidics in Williamsburg. Louis CK returns to the Comedy Cellar. The Patriarchy =...

Karl Malone, Post Malone. Manafort, Cohen. John Brennan's Clearance. 'The Verge of Civil War' or Just 'The Usual Bullshit.' Rutgers, White Privilege, and Gentrification. Asia Argento. A FIRE for All Seasons. Problematic Becky. Razor Blades in Your Favorite Breakfast Cereal. (Recorded August 22nd, 2018) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd li...