The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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  • 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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Episodes
  • #480 - The Media Mess / Gaetz Pulls Out (w/ Ben Smith)

    #480 - The Media Mess / Gaetz Pulls Out (w/ Ben Smith)
    Nov 23 2024

    An hour with Semafor founder Ben Smith discussing the sorry state of the media, followed by a Smith-free hour with the lads discussing, among other things, two very different people who nevertheless shared a very deep love of young people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • Members Only #236 - Here Comes the Nanny State!

    Members Only #236 - Here Comes the Nanny State!
    Nov 19 2024
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    * Kmele: Forever the HNIC

    * The Filet-O-Fish is Alaska pollock

    * A Swedish horror show

    * RFK at HHS

    * He forgot to mention this stuff…

    * Elon’s principles?

    * On Matt Gaetz and John Bolton

    * You know, we had a pretty good record on Covid…

    * Moulton v. a Salem Witch

    * A listener’s Irish-Catholic family is falling apart

    * That fake Netflix fight

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    17 mins
  • Members Only #235 - To Overthrow the World: A Conversation on Communism with Sean McMeekin

    Members Only #235 - To Overthrow the World: A Conversation on Communism with Sean McMeekin
    Nov 17 2024
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    Michael Moynihan sits down with Bard College professor Sean McMeekin to discuss his new book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, a Fifth-approved history of the global communist movement, from the ur-commie instincts of Plato to the sinister stupidities of Plekhanov. They also contemplate why so many smart people fall for ba…
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    20 mins

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Yup

They're not idiots, though their shared perspective lessens their worth to me. God's a good dude.

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