The Fifth Column

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...

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...