The Fifth Column

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...

- Jussie Smollett, Indicted (Kmele Totally Called That Shit) - But Then Again, The Whole Gang Totally Called That Shit Too - Coast Guard Neo-Nazi would-be terrorist arrested - Kmele and Liz Plank on "Reliable Sources" - Unreliable hate crime statistics - Social Justice Judo - CNN Hires Sarah Isgur Flores - Bill Moyers, Problematic Icon - Bernie Sanders, Front-runner - Some Idiot Wrote This - Downl...

(Plagiarism, Green Room Encounters, and All The Receipts) - We Need to Talk About Jill Abramson - Too Important to be a Plagiarist? - Rep Omar: You Might Be An Antisemitism, But Maybe Not - Blackface: The Highest Form of Flattery? - Klobuchar, FTW - Team AOC's Green New Deal Fiasco ALSO: - Moynihan Steps Out of Line - The Huxtable Compound - Indentured Servitude - 22 Savage - The Red Shoe Diaries...

w/ Brendan O'Neill (Editor in Chief, "Spiked") - Jussie Smollett - Stories For Every Narrative - Ralph Northam - Fancy Dress Parties - The Weird Man’s Burden - Anti Semitism, Hate Speech - Stormy or STORMZY - Yellow Vests Revolution   Recorded: PM 2/2/2019 Published: 2/4/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

- Jerry Brown - BuzzFeed's Bombshell? - Jason Leopold, Oliver Darcy - The Temple of Journalism - Anonymous Sourcing - Punching Catholic Kids - Stolen Valor, Callin' Bullshit ALSO: - Jill Abramson (Part 2) - "GUILTY" - By M.C. Moynihan - On Venezuela   Recorded: 1/22/2019 PM Published: 1/24/2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...

"They're like a train -- a train that's always runnin' right on time." - Anonymous w/ Brian Stelter (Chief Media Corespondent, CNN) (Host, "Reliable Sources") - Moynihan Meets Ann Coulter (Again) - A Boy and His Blog - Authoritarian Storm Clouds - The Temple of Journalism - Is CNN in Resistance Mode? - Grading Trump on a Curve - Excommunicating Steve King ALSO: - Media Literacy - "Page One", and T...

"Smarter, harder, about the same length as usual." - Anonymous - The Border Fence Shutdown - Reasons to Dislike AOC - Tea Party Retrospective - Ellen Met Kevin - Jazmine Barnes, Shaun King, and Overconcen - Destroying The Weatherman - Race Price, New York City Public Schools, and Historical Fictions - Human Rights + Angela Davis Recorded: PM 1/9/2019 Published: 1/11/2019 See acast.com/privacy for...

w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News) - BuzzFeed's Day in Court - About That Dossier - Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism - Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History - Newsroom Diversity - Indisputably Racist ALSO: - Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control - The Best Laid Plans - Another Shutdown - GoFundMe Governance - Trust Issues Recorded: PM 12/22/2018 Published:...

w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight") - Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right) - Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- F...