The Fifth Column

Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York Times From BuzzFeed to The NYT When Your Bosses are Kinda THE Story Why We Can't Stop Talking About The Times Newsroom Cultural White Privilege and Employee Orientation Resignations* Caliphate vs. 1619 "My Notebook Remains Open" Losing the Newsroom You Will Sign This Letter Vanilla Mandella Biggie Smalls When Van Met Ibram X Simple, Elegant, Almost...

Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc" Niggarati Privilege Childhood The Art of the Substack Deal The Shift An Active Conspiracy or An Active Conspiracy The Escape, And Uncertain Horizon It's Just a Camp, For Kids, So It's Fine Trump at CPAC A Good Shoot Bidenomics Listen to Black People Didn't Even Say The Word Recorded Feb 24th, 2021 Published Feb 25th, 2021...

Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public" Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest Frameworks From Information Monopoly to Information Tsunami Public Dissatisfaction Elites in Crisis Public Nihilism Historical Amnesia The Yellow Vests, Jan 6th, 2021 Political Sectarianism Truth + Objectivity + Resentment Drama at the New York Times The Future of Media and Truth Plato's Perfect Form o...

Pump and Dump Matt Bought Crack Real Compton City Gs Really Only One Bad Word The Public Interest Irrelevant Context MTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress? "I Can Only Be a Non-White Person" Why The Culture War Matters Merit: The Racism of Fairness Racist Covid Cumo, And the Incurious Media Recorded Feb 3rd, 2021 Published Feb 5th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. T...

Guest: Van Lathan @ "Higher Learning" (Co-Host), Previously @ TMZ Kmele and Van connect for a wide-ranging conversation about racism, reconciliation, and finding common ground. It's yet another exercise in constructive disagreement. In fact, it's the back half of a three-hour discussion that managed to feature vanishingly few points of agreement -- and zero personal insults. Oculus Quest THOUGHT W...

Make a Mint w/ Moynihan Who's Behind the Squeeze On the War Path Strange Bedfellows Popularity Contests Even Libertarians Equity and Private Prisons Coming Attractions Recorded Jan 28th, 2020 Published Jan 29th, 2020 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.we...

It is upon us: that very rare occasion when we unlock a Patreon episode for the masses. 🎁🎁🎁 If you are clever and don't want to miss future locked episodes, subscribe here . --------- Rather than our typical bullet-pointed show notes, we'll keep this one short and sweet. Because try as they might to pull the conversation away from Kmele's bravura performance on Real Time with Bill Maher , the l...

Is Melania the greatest first lady since Florence Harding? Does MC Hammer hate Kmele? Let the sycophancy begin! Qanonsense Understanding the Trump voter We're all weird and wrong The new Republican Party is awful. So is the new Democratic Party. The dumb 1776 project: "It's like Stephen Miller pooped on a legal pad" Hating big tech How not to combat bad speed See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...

Guest: Anna Khachiyan @ "Red Scare" (Co-Host) Kinda Canceled Holding the Mic Outrage Boner Dirtbags Tight Sweaters, Tighter Shirts Mo' Impeachments The MAGA Riots Culpability Cultural Amnesia, Sweetest Taboos Canceling Trump Canceling the Rest of Yall? Recorded Jan 13t, 2020 Published Jan 14th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like...

Welcome to 2021 A Coup d'état? An Insurrection? A dark beginning? A despicable bookend? A world of shit? We'll get to that -- but we're gonna need a lot more booze. Recorded Jan 6th, 2021 Published Jan 7th, 2021 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.wethefi...

- Kmele 2020 - AllyShip - Secret Shows - The Internet Never Forgets - Trap Lord - Burning the Witch (and maybe that annoying lady from down the street too) - Puritanism Without The Fun - Schadenfreude - Inconveniencing the Steal - Eviscerating Democracy (w/ Hyperbole) - Stop Laughing -- It's Not Funny - Thank You Recorded Dec 30th, 2020 Published Dec 31st, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy an...

Guest: Greg Lukianoff @ Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (President). Co-Author, "The Coddling of the American Mind" 🎁 🎁 🎁 🎁 🎁 Recorded Dec 23rd, 2020 Published Dec 25th, 2020 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.com/subscribe

New Views Demographic Considerations What Seems to Be The Problem Officer? The Honorable Minister Vaccine Rollout Careful Reporting Post Trump News Cycle The Flagrancy Predicting Apocalypse Recorded Dec 17th, 2020 Published Dec 19th, 2020 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...

Look, you asked for it. Fifth fan favorite ( ed - we really don't understand you people ) and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss (né Gould) is back. And the results are wonderfully shambolic. But seriously: make sure the kids are in bed before press play.... Ben is "on leave" from Mother Jones Why Ben's editor blocked him on Twitter (and you should too) No ice in Hawaii, no avocados in W...

"The Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible." - Five Deadly Venoms Way Out Of Line The Incredible Asshole Machine Related Controversy A Stolen*** Election Obama 💘 Cops Welcome to Murderapolis A Civil War, A Tent Revival Han Obviously Shot First (Probably Doesn't Matter) Bothsidesing: Maybe Not a Bad Idea Revivalist vs Redis...

An issue with the mics. An inspired fix. A nearly aborted dispatch manages to slide into your feed just in time for the stranges Thanksgiving in decades. A Rolling Start When Moynihan Met Oprah Coup d'é HAHAHAHAHA "I Told You" Salvaging the Culture Crisis of Authority Covid Masks Murder Rates Generational Divides Calling it Quits It's A Job, Ain't It? Recorded Nov 24th, 2020 Published Nov 26th, 20...

Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept The Move to Substack ( https://greenwald.substack.com/ ) The Marvelousness of the Fifth Column The Job Market The Reply to Critics The Blow by Blow The Culture The Hunter Biden Laptop Situation Recorded Oct 30th, 2020 Published Nov 19th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc...

Guest: Jason Stanley @ Author, "How Fascism Works", Professor of Philosophy @ Yale. The Answer Extremely Online, Prospective Hypocrisy Cancel Culture No Tellin Trump's Blacketst Swan But He's a Fascist Critical Race Back and Forth Pretty Good (for a Black Guy) Covid Recorded Nov 12th, 2020 Published Nov 14th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode....

What Election? The Perils of Watching Cable News What You Talkin Bout Welch The Got'Damn Polls Anticipated Unrest Black Woman Stabbed, By Black Lives Matters Supporters? What Happens to the Media What Happens to Republicans What Happens to Democrats Stereotypes are Fine Now You People Aren't Supposed to Vote That Way Woke-spiracy Fighting Them on The Beach Recorded Nov 4th, 2020 Published Nov 5th,...

Bannon's back. The New York Post isn't.   Don’t talk about Hunter! Are we living in a Techno Fascist Reich? Regulate, regulate, regulate The unforeseen consequences of deplatforming? Qanon inflation  To the gulag, go! Russia, Russia, Russia Which New York Times editor does Matt call "a loathsome toad"? FYI: Political journalists cannot cover “politically driven events” Debate, debate, debate Coher...

Moynihan's Old, New House COVID... is Fake? Siri, Do Black Lives Matter? Dueling Town Halls Everyone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really) The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability Politics Politics of Bullshit Foreign Bodies The Revolt of the Public Darkest Totalitarian Hellscape Recorded Oct 18, 2020 Published Oct 20, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. T...

Guest: Damon Root @ Reason Magazine, Author, "A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution" Trump Makes His Pick How Republicans Will Be Disappointed Court Packing And Other Shenanigans Historical Context, Oppressing People of Color COVID Rumors Debate Night Dog Whistles What Trump Really Means Vote by Mail (But Throw Out the Ballots) The First and Only Lady...

NOTE: This dispatch was beleaguered by technical and logistical challenges. The audio actually turned out pretty good (all things considered), but the entire thing was very nearly scrapped. Those challenges contributed to a delayed-release — and because the world has gone quite mad —the news cycle is evolving rapidly.  All the same, still lots of very relevant (even prophetic) stuff in this dispat...

Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Corespondent @NBC News / MSNBC Making TV News During a Pandemic Doing Your Own Makeup Last Man in Midtown We're All You Tubers Now It'll Be a Blow-Out, Or It'll Be Close Polls You Can Trust Black Voters, Impeachment, Collusion State of the Parties State of the Union State of the Media Paper or Plastic Recorded Sept 11, 2020 Published Sept 13, 2020 See acas...

Guest: Nancy Romemelmann, journalist and author of   To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder Moynihan is back from Kenosha, and Nancy Rommelmann returns for an update on the goings-ons in Portland. On the ground in Kenosha On the ground in Portland Media Malpractice, Self Deception DC, Rochester, What's Next Biden v Trump *Worse Than Useless Facts* Details That Matter Going Full MAGA...