The Fifth Column

Foster and Fisher are joined by legendary civil liberties attorney Ken White (of Popehat blogger and Twitter fame) and Damon Root (Reason's resident SCOTUS journalo and the author of "Overruled") to chop up the Justice Anthony Kennedy's surprise retirement announcement, his legacy, and the confirmation shitstorm that's sure to come. Also on tap: - SPLC's capitulation to Maajid Nawaz's defamation s...

(Recorded: June 20th, 2018 w/ Michael Tracey, Roving Journalist and Correspondent @TYTNetwork - Never Give Up - Woke at Whole Foods - Why do they hate Tracey - Eschewing the pretense of objectivity. - The exceptional lying of President Trump. - Trump vs Obama on immigration - On the media and reactions and anti-media animus - Bernie the Trumpist - Tariffs don’t mean the Western alliance is crumbli...

(Recorded June 13th, 2018) IN THIS DISPATCH: - Is the Western Alliance kaput? Does it matter? - Did Trump hand Kim a propaganda win, and if so, isn't averting nuclear war the bigger win? - North Korea shares a border with Russia and Rachel Maddow is ON IT - Moynihan shows up late - It's Trump's GOP until further notice and they're cool with "neo-Confederate" candidates, thank you very much - Miche...

(Recorded June 6th, 2018) w/ Josh Szeps (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of "#WeThePeople LIVE" and “The People Versus” IN THIS DISPATCH: - Brisbane to Boston. - Clive James’s death watch - Kanye drops “Ye” - Slavery may be a choice after all - Kat Timpf falls out of a tree... - Jim Acosta was wrong about Kim Kardashian - Bill Clinton is a widower - Bill Clinton is the real vi...

(Recorded May 25th, 2018) A conversation w/ Jacob Mchangama, Host of 'Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech" podcast. ( http://www.freespeechhistory.com ) - Pronouncing Mchangama- A Bit of Free Speech History- Cartoon Jihad- Panic and Crisis- Culture and Legislation- Filthy Jokes- 'The Great Awokening'- An Abrupt Ending "Jacob Mchangama is the founder and executive director of Justiti...

(Recorded May 16th, 2018) - "Are You Black?" - Calling the Cops on Black Kids - Isreal and Palestine: A Primer (Deliberately Calibrated to Infuriate Everyone) - Michael Cohen: Maker of Great Deals - When Everyone Hates (But No One Bothers to Read), Your Work - When Everyone Loves (But No One Bothers to Read), Your Work See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public epi...

(Recorded May 3rd, 2018) 18:00+ Host Grab-Assing20:00+ Defending Red-Pill Kanye, Why Slavery is Always YOUR fault36:00+ Morrissey's Politics, Lennon's Domestic Violence40:00+ Coping with Persistent (and almost certainly imaginary) Threats on Your Life45:00+ Phrase Politics, Welch goes off the reservation50:00+ Moynihan's Perpetually Offended53:00+ Stormy Daniels74:00+ Inside the Fox Green Room ALS...

(Recorded April 22nd, 2018) A conversation with evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. - On Free Speech, Campus Culture- Identity- Scientific Investigation & Tabboo Topics- The Intellectual Dark Web- Evolution, Culture, Markets, Media, and The Academy In THE SUMMER OF 2017, Bret Weinstein found himself at the center of an ‘equity and inclusion’ maelstrom at Evergreen State Coll...

(Recorded: April 24, 2018) Matt's surprisingly strong opinions about Kanye West's endorsement of Candace "Red Pill Black" Owens. Joy Reid wasn't a huge fan of the gays, wrote some questionable things on the subject, and it appears Kmele is ready to forgive her. Rand Paul's latest flip-flop (Fisher is unimpressed).Trump bros-out with French president Macron. ALSO: Extended notes on the Starbucks Co...

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Sorry for the unusually tardy release. This conversation was recorded approximately five days ago (prior to the most recent intervention in Syria), but the release was delayed by matters of great significance and urgency (which I won't bother to outline here). All the same, it's still a very fine vintage. (Recorded: April 12, 2018) with: Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones) and Kat Timpf...

(Recorded: March 27, 2018) A conversation w/ Amy Chua (@amychua), Yale law professor and author of numerous books including: "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother", "The Triple Package", "World on Fire", and her latest book "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations". “Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just...

(Recorded: March 28, 2018) with Tom Slater, Deputy Editor @ Spike'd Tina Nguyen, Politics and Media Reporter @ Vanity Fair Marching for our Lives, Poisoning Spies, Activist Journalist... - Moonshine, Poison (Half a Helping of Each) - Killing Marco Rubio - Teenage Sainted Activist Student Journalist - Making America Great Again + Putting Y'all Back in Chains - Kevin Williamson Moves to The Atlantic...

Recorded: March 15, 2018 We've got FiveThirtyEight's Jody Avirgan in the studio. Matt is on assignment someplace. This Week: Is there a free speech "crisis" on campus? Moynihan and Jody's considerably different approached to sparking media frenzies. PLUS: Rex, we hardly knew ye (literally). But was he all that stood between us and the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" dominatrix? See acast.com/privac...

Recorded: March 9, 2018. Welch, Moynihan, Fisher and Foster are in attendance. An increasingly unlikely Presidential visit to North Korea. A seemingly permeable steel and aluminum tariff. A growing interest in POTUS's indiscretions w/ a Porn StarAnd Sam Nunberg's media PsyOp (and/or) breakdown Pertinent Notes: - "A Strange new respect..."- "A tribute vice pays to virtue..."- "The Q got that D..."...

Recorded: March 1, 2018. Oscar Talk: Best and Worst, Most Overrated and Ryan Gosling Stick Talk: AR-15s, Scool Shootings, The National Rifle Association, and Due Process. featuring ANDY LEVYSenior Producer of the “S.E. Cup Unfiltered” on HLN SONNY BUNCHExecutive Editor @ The Washington Free BeaconCo-Host @ The Weekly SubStandard Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Th...

(Recorded: February 13th 2018) "Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well o...

+ Indispensable Commentary On That [treasonous/heroic/meh] Nunes Memo+ Context, Collusion and Russian Conspiracies+ A Foreign Policy Primer+ Briefest of notes on Trump's first State of the Union (Recorded February 1st 2018) Note: This dispatch was recorded the day before the MEMO was released, honestly -- you won't be able to tell the difference. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor...

w/ Bari Weiss (@bariweiss), Staff editor and writer @ New York Times Opinion (Former Wall Street Journal, Tablet Magazine) An expansive, high-quality dispatch that was unfortunately marred by technical mishaps. It's not actually Fishers fault (quite the contrary in fact). xpan Things improve considerably as the release goes on. - Government Shutdowns- Amnesty Don's Great Big Amnesty Bonanza- Skipp...

Moynihan is back, Matt was an illegal immigrant, and Kmele was *front* row for Lebron vs. Steph. Plus: DACA. FISA. Shit. #MeToo. Recorded: January 15, 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.com/subscribe

Recorded: January 5, 2018 - Kmele’s Axioms of Child Rearing- Long on Fury, Short on Fire- Red Flags, Fake News on Facebook- Trump's Tax Cut, Regulation Busting - Heather Mac Donald vs. Everybody 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

Recorded: December 21, 2017. Michael Moynihan (Vice News) in conversation with the incomparable Tina Brown. On the business and practice of journalism, the marvelous island of Manhattan, the authentic bullshit of Donald Trump, and #metoo. 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...

(Recorded on Thursday December 14th 2017) with/ Jeffrey Blehar (@EsotericCD) of Decision Desk HQ and The Political Beats podcast. We talk the recent Alabama Senate election and the FCC's controversial decision to rescind Obama-era net neutrality rules. 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 ac...

(Recorded, November 2017) An expansive exchange with renowned social commentator and linguist, John McWhorter. McWhorter is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He's the author of twenty books including "Words on the Move" (2017), "Talk Back, Talking Black" (2017), and "Losing the Race" (2000). Also Referenced:“Antiracism: Our Flawed New Religion” (2015 - The D...

- Matt Lauer - Seducing Kevin Spacey - James O’keefe - Fake Headlines, Faker Stats - Dumbest News Day Ever - Britain First, Murder Allegations - Trashing Bob Woodward - Some Idiot.... ABORTED 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

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai drops in to explain why he's returning the Internet to the dark ages of... 2015. PLUS: - Draymond vs. Mark Cuban - The AOL-Time Warner instant messaging juggernaut - Janet Jackson's wardrobe and Stephen Colbert's c***holster And why won't the FCC just let Slim Shady be? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...