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w / Tina Nguyen (White House Reporter @ Politico) Watching the RNC Trump's on Twitch Nasty Emojis The Fire Next Time (Kenosha Edition) "What's the big deal? Your insurance will pay for it?" Total Failure of Political Leadership Matt Welch: Snowflake? Marines in Portland?  Libertarian Enough? Leaping to Conclusions, Outright Lying Independent Investigations Jacob Blake: Things We Don't Know Kyle Ri...

w / Coleman Hughes 🤫 Recorded Aug 21, 2020 Published Aug 23, 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

We can't believe it. Neither can you. It's our 200th episode!! (Well, not including the thirty-plus, subscriber-only Patreon episodes, which are looser, bawdier, and even more problematic... so stop freeloading and subscribe !). In celebration of this momentous anniversary, we called up our old friend Andrew Sullivan, fresh from his separation with New York magazine and joining from his Provinceto...

Drugs You Should Try Heroine, A Black Drug? Black People Are All The Same Voter Fraud, by Mail Selecting A VP Cognitive Tests (Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV) Scare Tactics Suburban Lifestyle Dreams The State of New York FBG Duck New George Floyd Video The Trouble With China Facebook vs TikTok Blazing Saddles Recorded Aug 6, 2020 Published Aug 9, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out...

Guest: Nancy Rommelmann, journalist and author of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder Nancy Rommelmann, friend of the Fifth and former resident of Portland, Amerikkka , returns from the ramparts of the revolution with news, anecdotes, and a glimpse at our glorious future. Alis volat propriis . So we asked our very own Lady John Reed just what the hell is happening in the insurrect...

Glenn Greenwald, Co-Founder @ The Intercept Author, "No Place to Hide" Thomas Chatterton Williams Contributing Writer @ New York Times Mag Author, "Self Portrait in Black and White" After a little internet drama related to the Harper's Open Letter, Kmele got together w/ Thomas and Glenn to discuss. Why we needed "A Letter on Justice and Debate" Why Glenn isn't a Signatory What is Cancel Culture Do...

We haven't unlocked a Patreon episode since way back in February. But we (Moynihan) were feeling generous, so here's a paywalled bonus episode from July 13, liberated for all of you cheapskates. You're welcome. If you want a new subscriber-only episode every week (plus slurring live Zoom calls, lost episodes, mail bag episodes, a community of like-minded psychos, etc), subscribe here ! -----------...

w/ Josh Szeps (né Zepps), ABC Australia and host of the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast . Josh-o's back and the dingo has his baby! Australia's most listened-to radio host joins the Fifth from his COVID-free compound in Sydney to talk nonsense about: Paul Hogan (obviously) How the Aussies handled the COVID That story about our friend who resigned from the Times "Cancel culture," right and left...

Two-plus hours with our favorite German, Herr Yascha Mounk , contributing editor at The Atlantic and founder of Persuasion , a publication dedicated to promoting and defending the "values of a free society." The lads discuss that Harper's letter on cancel culture, signed by Kmele and Yasha (and Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, JK Rowling, et al); the attempt to cancel people who signed a statement opp...

w/ Wesley Lowery Correspondent @ CBS - "60 Minutes in 6" Lowery Wrote A Thing: "A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists" (NYT) - June 23, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html Welch Raised Some Objections: "Journalists Abandoning 'Objectivity' for 'Moral Clarity' Really Just Want To Call People Immoral" (Reason) - June 24, 202...

w/ Jacob Siegel, Senior Writer @ Tablet "The New Truth" (June 22nd 2020) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-truth-rationalism-religion "Journalists Abandoning 'Objectivity' for 'Moral Clarity' Really Just Want To Call People Immoral" (6/24/2020) https://reason.com/2020/06/24/journalists-abandoning-objectivity-for-moral-clarity-really-just-want-to-call-people-immoral/ - The Lisa "...

w/ Jane Coaston, Senior Politics Reporter @ Vox Some Sports Stuff TickTock Swiftboats Tulsa Trumps Party What Comes Next Immigration + Visas The Coaston Plan More Black Lives Matter Talk But What About.... Unbundling the Police Liking the Neighborhood Cops Recorded: June 23, 2020 Published: June 25, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd...

w/ David French, Senior Editor @ The Dispatch and Columnist @ Time Help With Your Down Payment? A Busy Day For SCOTUS 2A, Qualified Immunity (Part I), Expanding Civil Rights Thought Crimes On Racism (and Anti Racism) The Worst Dinner Party The Censorship Impulse Gone With the Wind, Song of the South The Lost Cause... Myth? What Northerners Really Want Still in Love w/ Daisy Duke Anti-racism Must B...

w/ Olivia Nuzzi, Washington Correspondent @ New York Magazine An Unprecedented Movement Defunding the Police... Or Just Abolishing Them Canceling Most Things, Razing The Rest Moral Clarity in the News Room Trump on the Campaign Trail, Biden's Strengths Why Trump and Rudy Can't Stop Talking to Nuzzi Recorded: June 10, 2020 Published: June 12, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor...

A Brief History of Right Now Punk Police It Might Actually Be Legal Black on Black on Black Bending the Knee NYT Civil War Essentialism in Practice Law & Order Passover MLK on Riots Recorded:6/4/2020 Published: 6/6/2020 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...

Kmele facilitates a follow-up conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism -- this time, in the midst of a global pandemic and increasing social unrest. You can find the first installment in this series of conversations here: http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121 GUESTS / Glenn Loury Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University Thomas Chatterton Williams Author, "Self-Portrait...

She wrote a column in the New York Times . She failed to mention her favorite podcast. She mentioned other podcasts. She texted us asking if she could come on the show to apologize. We agreed. Bari Weiss, the genial and gentle bête noire of woke culture, is back...hat in hand, asking for Fifth forgiveness. But she sticks around to discuss lots of other stuff: - We are all Stasi agents now - You're...

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism - How Startups Think About Failure + Survival - Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives - Forging Societal Truth - Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously - Why Journalist Hate The V...

w/ Ethan Strauss Writer @ Athletic, Author "The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty" (2020) - Getting Political - NBA vs China - Bad Deals and Bad Economics - The Incomparable Michael Jordan - 'What is Best In Life' - Resuming the NBA Season - Pissing off Kevin Durant Recorded: May 13th 2020 Published: May 17th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informa...

w/ Rep Justin Amash US Congressman (Michigan's 3rd Congressional District) and 2020 Libertarian Presidential Hopeful U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2011, and currently serving as the first Libertarian Party member of Congress. Amash diagnoses what's wrong with America's politics, parties, and legislative process. And he makes the case for why he's ideally well...

w/ Glenn Greenwald Co-founding Editor @ The Intercept, Host @ "System Update" A once in a century pandemic is producing unique and daunting challenges to civil liberties around the world. What are the necessary compromises? Where are the non-negotiable red lines? And what are those mysterious bright lights people have been seeing in the night sky? (The last one is easy: visitors from another galax...

w/ Jonah Goldberg  Editor-in-Chief @The Dispatch, Host @ The Remnant Podcast President Trump has an inspired idea for arresting a global pandemic. It involves ultraviolet rays, disinfectant washes -- and Welch seems convinced that it also has something to do with "butt stuff" -- which, honestly, it wouldn't be the strangest thing you've heard all day. ALSO: - Jonah on Political Homelessness - Defi...

Kmele Foster, Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) and Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) discuss the cacophony of concern about blackness+ racism in the midst of a once in a century global pandemic. RELATED POSTS: "Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?" - Coleman Hughes https://quillette.com/2020/04/13/do-covid-19-racial-disparities-matter/ "Don’t Racialize the Pandemic" - Zaid Jilani https://www.nationalreview.co...

- Gender Traitors - Teddy Pendergrass - Trump’s Absolute Authority - Cutting off WHO Funding - What a Pandemic Can Teach You - China and The American Free Press Recorded: April 15th, 2020 Released: April 17th, 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.weth...

"When America catches a cold, black America... " -- well, we should maybe talk about that. - Welch Makes a Baseball Analogy - Moynihan helps Governor Cuomo shame the traitorous scum who refuse to STAY IN DOORS - Amid growing concern about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 may be having on black folks in America -- Kmele has thoughts - When Billionaires Give Money Away (it's never enough -- and...