The Fifth Column

w/ Jonathan Rauch @ Author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Senior fellow @BrookingsInst . Contributing writer @TheAtlantic . - I Heart Lizzo - Where Things When Wrong - Flooding the Zone - Breaking Journalism - The Humanitarian Threat and Moral Clarity - Cancel Culture, Information Warfare, Social Coercion - Truth + Checking - Greatest Leap Forward - Ibram Orwell - Bans, Ma...

"Well, it's my show. So, it's how I wanna do it." - Joy-Ann Reid "I can do what I wanna do." - Bobby Brown " Whateva! Whateva! I do what I want! " - Eric Cartman w/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute -- Contributing Editor, City Journal - When Rufo Met Reid - The Art of Culture War - Activist Journalist - Critical Race Theory: Boardroom, College Campus, Neighborhood Preschool - Ba...

Kmele reveals his big secret! What on Earth is a "coupon Karen"? When Shaun Was King When Kmele was king of Juneteenth Measuring the outrage economy Measuring the wages of junk history Racist car crashes "When the people fail, the concept fails" The end of Afghanistan (the war / the country) There's a perpetual riot goin' on Another CRT digression RIP to an entertaining, insane, narcissistic, poss...

New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric coastal elites, the back half of the show is, as usual, about how coastal elites are dumb, joyless, and boring. Something for everyone. - New York is back? Harry is bac...

Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that hollow sound). Nursing hangovers and gasping in the heat, the lads stumble through the following pressing (and pointless) topics: - Those Miami shows were pretty fun, eh? -...

w/ Jane Coaston @ (Host, "The Argument" @ The New York Times) Take Four From Vox to NYT's "Rising Libertarian Star"  Coming Out John Brown The Black Community Appraisal of America's  Racial Reckoning The New Culture War Anti-Racist Classrooms and Workplaces Slightly Off Mic Whole Foods Edge Lord Panics, Counter-Panics, Counter-Counter-Panics Recorded: 5.28.2021 Published: 6.2.2021 See acast.com/pr...

Radical Honesty A Year of (Racial) Reckoning Losing the Thread George Floyd Amy Cooper, Christian Cooper... and the other dog walkers? Covering Lab Leaks and UFOs The Death of Truth The Myth of Objectivity Journalism for the Real World Boston Basketball (and racial slurs) Trump Grand jury Recorded May 26, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If...

w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI) Crypto Bloodbath UFOs -- or are they UAPs The Jan 6th Commission (Part I) Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White Journalists Homeless in San Francisco The White Man's Burden A Call from Peter About That Vote The Revolt of the Public The Feels The Truth is Out There Recorded May 19, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episo...

The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Note that after an hour of Gustavo's trademark Southern California/Mexican smack talk--in which he defends Taco Bell, ruminates on "LatinX," explains "Tio Tacos" and "Chicanosaurus...

- The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for? - Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality - Racism becomes more systemic, less specific  - Basecamp asks employees to leave politics at the door…or head for the door - Are a bunch of smart libertarian legal scholars wrong or super wrong? - The Socialist Network: the GOP wants to compel Facebook to be nice to DJ...

w/ Paul Rossi (Math Teacher and Writer) https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students A verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is an undeniable milestone for the entire country with wide-ranging implications for American media, politics, and culture. Had things gone differently, America would likely have seen another...

"What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute) A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems in America's immigration and criminal justice system -- takes a little time. Especially when you're forced to contend w/ WHITE SUPREMACY [Insert Ghost Emoji]. It's kinda like a podcast-mixtape. A - S...

Hunter "Squirtle" Biden Matt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz Adventures in the Havana Hilton? When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly) A New Era of Bipartisanship Win Ben Stein's Heart The American Metaphor Council Who's D riving the Democratic Party China and Bitcoin Self Correcting Journalism Tweets Bad. Accessory to the murder of a Judge -- we have to be understanding Kmele Loves Guns Univ...

(In No Particular Order) Live From New York DRINK AOC AMA CDC Press Conference  Mask Etiquette DRINK Derek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1) Eight Fingers Left Tar Babies A Thing Greater Than Yourself Voter Suppression 2.0 DRINK Corporate Welfare Five Pinocchios Ending Ken Burns The Cowardly Doormen Recorded April 1st, 2021 Published April 3rd, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio...

Summary Kmele Loses an Entire Dispatch Moynihan's Most Racist Voice Important Homework What We Might Have Talked About Mass Shootings Hate Crime Hysterics and Lies Ending the War in Afghanistan Nationa Building Whale Watching + 400 Years of Suffering Leaving Sesame Street Recorded March 25th, 2021 Published March 26th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a publi...

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University Snyder Cut Sympathy for Dictators Useful Pretense of Justice How Did Sachs Get It So Wrong State of the New Culture War Free Speech Hypocrisy The Left Is Worse, Right? Power Imbalance Coastal Myopia What if We're Wrong (Again*) Recorded March 18th, 2021 Published March 22th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio...

Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported" Keeping Secrets Coming 2 America Transphobia is Bad A Most Prescient Cancelation Say THE WORD, Katie They'll Never Give You A Reson The Tax Code is Racist Plato's Utopia Rescue Package in Name Only Tucker Carlson, Mean Person Tinker Taylor, Toy Soldier Virtual Ball Busting Pretending Things Ain't Complicated The Shape of A Joke The Many Trials o...

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...