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. www.wethefifth.com
Notable Guests
Episodes (694)
The Department Formerly Known as Justice (w/ Devlin Barrett) MO 343
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Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573
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It Was All Just a Joke (Members Only #342)
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Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)
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Bad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341
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Seize the Means of Conservatism (w/ Stephanie Slade) MO #340
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Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)
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Terry Moran and the Network News Autopsy (Members Only #339)
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The Politics of Pretending (Episode #570)
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A Man of 1989 (w/ David Frum) #569
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Out of Whiskey and Reaching for the Rotgut (Members Only #338)
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The Admirably Irresponsible Journalist w/ John R. MacArthur (Members Only #337)
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The Fifth Gets a Substitute Teacher (w/ Jesse Singal) #568
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The Temple Is Rich. The Monks Are Poor (w/ Frank Dikötter) Members Only #336
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I Don’t Make Mistakes Anymore. They’re Just Lies (w/ Chris Cuomo) #567
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The Gold-Plated Imperial Presidency (w/ Maggie Haberman) Members Only #335
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The Denial of Reality Is a Powerful Drug (w/ Bret Stephens) - Members Only #334
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There Is No They - #566
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Failing "The God Test" (w/ Robert Wright) - Members Only #333
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Are We the Baddies? The Graham Platner Reckoning (w/ Kat Rosenfield) - #565
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The Revolution Will Be Staffed by PhDs (w/co-host Peter Meijer) - #564
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Adam Carolla Has Nowhere Else to Go (Members Only #332)
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One-Hitter: Sarah Isgur Explains the Supreme Court’s Big Finish (Members Only #3...
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The Cadres and the Cabal (#563)
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One Hitter: The DSA Takes NYC w/ Michael A. Cohen (Members Only #330)
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Genocide Juice and the Socialist Machine w/Reihan Salam (Members Only #329)
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The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)
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Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)
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The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)
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A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)
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When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326...
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Populism for Morons, Journalism for Martyrs (Episode #560)
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Senator Chris Murphy Wants You to Join a Cult (Members Only #325)
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A Great Nation in Decline Welcomes Australia’s Finest w/ Josh Szeps (Members Onl...
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Ben Rhodes and the Evil Empire State of Mind (#559)
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Why'd You Gag Me, Preet Bharara! (Members Only #323)
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TFC LIVE in DC at w/ Lulu Garcia-Navarro & Robby Soave - Members Only #322
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Matt Yglesias on Cancellation, Mamdani, and the AI Panic (Members Only #321)
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The Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (Episode #55...
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When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)
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Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)
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Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)
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Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)
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David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Fait...
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Crimes of Boredom (Members Only #318)
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Tucker, Totenkopf, and the Fascist Question w/ Michelle Goldberg #554
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Live From Village Underground: The 10th Anniversary Show w/Ryan Long (Members On...
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Audience of One w/ Brian Kilmeade (Members Only #316)
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Nothing is Impossible w/ Mark Harmon (Members Only #315)
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A Blockade of the Blockade #553
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