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The Fifth Column

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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  • June 24 · 16 min

    Genocide Juice and the Socialist Machine w/Reihan Salam (Members Only #329)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com -Ethnicity as performance -Manhattan politics with the president of the Manhattan Institute -Dan Goldman orders coffee, receives moral instruction -The many political personalities of Brad Lander -Taxpayer-funded activism and the Office of Mass Engagement -Mamdani and the borg beneath the campaign -AOC, cadres, and disciplined political parties -Gaza as the om…

  • June 19 · 1 hr 37 min

    The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)

    -Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans -The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse -Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal -Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers -Why can’t the hawks ever learn? -Ukraine brings the war home to Russia -Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war -Europe wakes up… sort of -Meloni jabs her digits at Trump -Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics -as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA -Hamilton Heights is Gaza now -Mamdani’s little machine comes for Dan Goldman -Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test -The long-term problem with Mamdani economics -Gavin Newsom vs. Trump’s DOJ -The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case -Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion -Baseball is gay in June Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST. The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer/listener supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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

  • June 17 · 19 min

    Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy. -JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right -The Iran deal, Rubio’s silence, and Trump’s trial balloon -What Batya got wrong about the war -Could Trump have sold the war better?

  • June 12 · 1 hr 29 min

    The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)

    -The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case -Valid destruction or peaceful rioting? -A brief detour through America’s dumbest college mascots -Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night -Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans -Spike Lee has been on the court long enough -Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed? -Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business -The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat -Introducing Midterm Madness -LA’s mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy -California’s governor’s race and the strange usefulness of market signals -The race to watch -Platner’s character problem is not going away -Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count -Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated -A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level -UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now -Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a listener/viewer-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow The Fifth Column YouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn 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

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