The Fifth Column

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...

With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic. PLUS "The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens" - Keep Buggering On Recorded: March 31st, 2020 Released: April 2ndth, 2...

- The lads are losing it in quarantine - New York is "authentic" again / full of crackhead zombies - Being entrepreneurial in a time of crisis - So what's happening in COVID world - And what does Kmele think *now*? - Is this all capitalism's fault? - More studies, more confusion - The shitty media is even shittier than ever - Hating on De Blasio - Manufacturing scientific consent - It's MH370. And...

The quarantine continues...the Fifth Columnists have thoughts... - Kmele is the Kurtz/Lauren Hill of Virginia - Some listener mail - We have the results! (Calm down Todd) - Updates on the COVID - Is it all going to fall apart? Probably - Are we are at war? Not really - Some more listener mail - Some audiobooks to listen to while quarantined - Some more sports to watch while no sports is happening...

UPDATE: The original version of this episode was uploaded out of sync. It has been replaced with a corrected version. We regret the error. But stop complaining. It's free. The bat virus apocalypse continues. The Fifth Column soldiers on, shouting ¡No pasarán! - Kmele is in the woods, Matt is in South Brooklyn, Moynihan is in hiding - All COVID, all the time! - Wait, so does he have it or not? - Km...

w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes" DESCRIPTION:  - Decadence, Low and High - The Four Horseman - “Giving Decadence Its Due” - Birth Rates, Populations, Populism - It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right - Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn - TVs Golden Age - The Case for Joe Biden - Don Jr's GOP - A New York T...

w/ Eli Lake ( Columnist @ Bloomberg Opinion) - Typhoid Welch - Biden crushes South Carolina and Super Tuesday - Good 'ol Uncle Joe or Cognitive Decline - "Democratic" Socialism? - MAGA Corps and Bernie Bros Will Excuse Almost Anything Their Candidates Do - Elizabeth Warren Lost -- It's Empirically Not HER Fault - DNC Subterfuge - Biden's Lies About Getting Arrested, Mandela Thanking - Preview of t...

w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation) - Throwin Up Gang Signs - COVID-19 - Cuban History 101 - Giving China Credit - Billionaires and Unicorns - Harvey Weinstein Recorded: February 26th, 2020 Released: February 27th, 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 bon...

w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast) Co Authors: " "Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington" Description: - Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents - Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld - Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy - Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever - Rats and Snitches - Daily Beast: A "Hig...