The Fifth Column

Recorded: October 9th 2019 Published: October 10th 2019 GUEST: Walt Hickey, Senior Editor for Data @ Insider Founder @ Numlock News newsletter 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

- Picking fights in restaurants - Botham Jean's brother forgives Amber Guyger for murdering his brother. And that's a problem.  - Forgiveness vs. MORE HARSH SENTENCING - Ukraine/Trump  - Matt lacks the Xi-spot to laugh  - Trump’s Afghanistan policy is a photo of ladies in pants  - Base familial corruption - Swampier than the swamp - We've been had (if we're Obama or Trump supporters) - Obama’s Jon...

- Moynihan won an Emmy - #EmmysSoWhite - "Some saw..." - Films Don't Matter - Xenophobic Immigrants - Biden, Trump, Ukraine - Will He Be Impeached ? Maybe…And No - It's Greta Thunberg's World - The Vaping Muslim Ban - Rashida Tlaib's Science of Smoking - Tweet Dumpster Diving - “Cancel Culture is A Myth” Recorded: September 26, 2019 Published: September 27th 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy...

- The “moderate chic” party - RIP Emmet O’Lunney’s - Brett Kavanaugh *Allegation(s)* - College campuses in the 1980s was all about apartheid - Moynihan’s Foggy Memory, and Everyone’s - John Bolton, Out - Obama’s Apology Tour and Trump’s Chomsky Impression - Kmele’s Worried about Iranian escalation  - Joe BIden’s "Corn Pop" Story: Fact Check=True - George Packer’s Atlantic Piece on Schools - Cancel...

Recorded: September 4th 2019 Published: September 7th 2019 Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Author of "The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism" - RIP, Vice News Tonight on HBO - Everybody kinda likes Joe Walsh - The "Straight Man" on MSNBC - New Jersey politics is so much more fun than national politics - Kamala Harris cha...

- Ladies Libertarianing - The Segregation of Everything - The 1619 Project: “Everything that makes America exceptional is because of slavery” - NHJ: “We’re the MOST American” - Trump: “I hereby order…” - Dual Loyalty (and cascading stupidity) - David Koch, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter - Park Slope Socialists Recorded: August 23rd 2019 Published: August 26th 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...

Welch, Moynihan, and Kmele are all in the same room for the first time in more than a month -- and it's a glorious reunion. Recorded: August 16th 2019 Published: August 18th 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 episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

In this Special Dispatch, Michael Moynihan sits down with legendary journalist, author, and documentarian -- Jon Ronson. They discuss some of Ronson's most celebrated books, his fabulous new podcasts exploring the porn industry ("The Butterfly Effect", "The Last Days of August"), and his penchant for pissing off Alex Jones. Jon Ronson's Books Include: "Them" (2001) "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (20...

Guest: Ben Dreyfuss (Editorial Director, Mother Jones) Description: - Moynihan in Martha's Vineyard - Mueller sucks on TV - Trump’s Razor: The dumbest explanation is the most likely - “Send them back” — is it racist? - Jane Mayer's Al Franken defense - Shitty Media Men - Deletes Jokes - A$AP Rocky See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

Guest: Molly Jong-Fast is a contributor to  The Bulwark  and the  author of three books.  ( @MollyJongFast ) Recorded: July 11th 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 episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at the New Yorker, author of "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" Description: In this special dispatch, Michael Moynihan talks with Patrick Radden Keefe about the 1972 murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 in Belfast, at the hands of the IRA. Her disappearance remained a mystery for decades, but in his new book, Keefe n...

- Moynihan Goes to Court - Welch gets a Stress Sty - RIP, Steve Dunleavy - NBA O-W-N-E-R-S - Democratic Debate Preview - No Plan B for Iran - Concentration Camp Kerfuffle - San Fran Bans E-cigs (Till They Can Figure Out What the Hell is Going On" Recorded: 6/25/2019 Published: 6/27/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd...

w/ Coleman Hughes - Everyone Told Coleman Not To Testify - Age, Experience, Credentials - Lethal Weapons, Imaginary Friends - “Shame Shame” - Full Puerto Rican - Moral Alchemy - Coleman Reads His Mentions - We, They, Us - Candace Owens, Lil Pump, And The Decline of Western Civilization Recorded: 6/21/2019 Published: 6/24/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informa...

- Kmele’s New Spot in Brooklyn - Moynihan Gets Arrested - Fisher is a jealous "lefty hack" - Dave Rubin is totally NOT in his Feelings - Assange, Journalistic Freedom - Trump vs His Advisors - European Elections - MLK: Hero, Philanderer (and possibly worse), But Definitely a Hero - Bill de Blasio Needs to Raise Some Money, Fast Recorded: 5/28/2019 Published: 5/30/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast....

- "Alex Jones is not a civil rights leader!" - Howard Kurtz was once serious - Trump's attempted outing - Phony classical liberals - Free speech at the margins - Every election is stolen - Finding Loose Change - Conspiracy theorists, right and left - An Infinitely stupid Congress - Donald Trump as Mr. Bean Recorded: 5/8/2019 Published: 5/12/2019 www.wethefifth.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy...

w/ Eli Lake (Columnist @ Bloomberg Voice) - We Like Bari Weiss - Moynihan is a Drunk, Also a Great Neighbor - Muller Report - Grifting, the Grifters, of Grif - Eli Lake's Hood Pass - Tom Arnold Was Great in True Lies - All The Missing Tapes - Seth Abramson's Beautiful Mind - Election Interference / Hacking / Exaggerations - Impeachments + Inquiries - Assange: Journalist or Naw? - Naughty Journalis...

w/ Ben Dreyfuss - Editorial Director @ Mother Jones - Waiting for Godot - Ben Dreyfuss is, Young Bernie Madoff - Jill Abramson's 'Write' Privilege - "Strange Justice" = "Strange Fruit"? - Political turncoats - Paleo-Neoconservative - Private School Kids Buying Drugs - Daddy issues - Bret Easton Ellis' bad writing - Death threats - Race Realists Recorded: 4/17/2019 Published: 4/19/2019 www.wethefif...

w/ Andrew Sullivan - Writer at Large for New York Magazine, - Hating New York - What Would Hitch Say? - On Being a Reluctant, Problematic Civil Rights Pioneer - Surviving a Death Sentence - Immigration Backlash - Obama Hated Identity Politics? - Assange Arrested - Pope Benedict blames the 60s - Too Many Popes - The Comfort of Religious Ritual Recorded: 4/11/2019 Published: 4/12/2019 www.wethefifth...

w/ Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) - Our Mathematical Universe - "Leaving Neverland" Revisionism - Russiagate: Right, Wrong, Whatever - Jonathan Chait is “Completely* Correct*” - When in Venezuela + Nobody Likes Sanctions - Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Crisis" - Making Friends + Enemies on Twitter - "The Realm of Hungry Ghosts" (a book by Aaron's Dad) - Stop Snitchin (On Your Sources) - Joe B...

- Trump: Death by gloating - Margaret Sullivan: the Captain Beefheart of journalism - Glenn Greenwald spikes the football with a vengeance - MSNBC doubles down - Seth Abramson: Poet laureate, Resistance Hero - Trump's enemies list and love of authoritarians - Roger Stone and the D-list of DC conservatism - Jussie Smollet's privilege - Some Idiot Wrote This, Jane Mayer edition Recorded: 3/26/2019 P...

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...