The Fifth Column

Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recor…

w/ Jane Coaston @ (Host, "The Argument" @ The New York Times)

• Take Four
• From Vox to NYT's "Rising Libertarian Star" 
• Coming Out
• John Brown
• The Black Community
• Appraisal of America's Racial Reckoning
• The New…

• Radical Honesty
• A Year of (Racial) Reckoning
• Losing the Thread
• George Floyd
• Amy Cooper, Christian Cooper... and the other dog walkers?
• Covering Lab Leaks and UFOs
• The Death of Truth
• The Myth of Objectivity
• J…

w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI)

• Crypto Bloodbath
• UFOs -- or are they UAPs
• The Jan 6th Commission (Part I)
• Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White Journalists
• Homeless in San Francisco
• The White Man's Burden
• …

The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Foo…

- The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for?

- Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality

- Racism becomes more systemic, less specific 

- Basecamp asks employees…

w/ Paul Rossi (Math Teacher and Writer)

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students

A verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer convicted of murdering George…

"What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace

w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute)

A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems …

• Hunter "Squirtle" Biden
• Matt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz
• Adventures in the Havana Hilton?
• When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly)
• A New Era of Bipartisanship
• Win Ben Stein's Heart
• The American …

(In No Particular Order)

• Live From New York
• DRINK
• AOC AMA
• CDC Press Conference 
• Mask Etiquette
• DRINK
• Derek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1)
• Eight Fingers Left
• Tar Babies
• A Thing Greater Than Yourself
• Voter Suppression…

Summary

• Kmele Loses an Entire Dispatch
• Moynihan's Most Racist Voice
• Important Homework
• What We Might Have Talked About
• Mass Shootings
• Hate Crime Hysterics and Lies
• Ending the War in Afghanistan
• Nationa Buil…

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University

• Snyder Cut
• Sympathy for Dictators
• Useful Pretense of Justice
• How Did Sachs Get It So Wrong
• State of the New Culture War
• Free Speech Hypocrisy
• T…

Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported"

• Keeping Secrets
• Coming 2 America
• Transphobia is Bad
• A Most Prescient Cancelation
• Say THE WORD, Katie
• They'll Never Give You A Reson
• The Tax Code is Racist
• Pla…

Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York Times

• From BuzzFeed to The NYT
• When Your Bosses are Kinda THE Story
• Why We Can't Stop Talking About The Times
• Newsroom Cultural
• White Privilege and Employ…

Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc"

• Niggarati
• Privilege Childhood
• The Art of the Substack Deal
• The Shift
• An Active Conspiracy or An Active Conspiracy
• The Escape, An…

Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public"

• Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest Frameworks
• From Information Monopoly to Information Tsunami
• Public Dissatisfaction
• Elites in Crisis
• Public …

• Pump and Dump
• Matt Bought Crack
• Real Compton City Gs
• Really Only One Bad Word
• The Public Interest
• Irrelevant Context
• MTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress?
• "I Can Only Be a Non-White Person"
• Why The Culture…

Guest: Van Lathan @ "Higher Learning" (Co-Host), Previously @ TMZ

Kmele and Van connect for a wide-ranging conversation about racism, reconciliation, and finding common ground. It's yet another exerci…

• Make a Mint w/ Moynihan
• Who's Behind the Squeeze
• On the War Path
• Strange Bedfellows
• Popularity Contests
• Even Libertarians
• Equity and Private Prisons
• Coming Attractions

Recorded Jan 28th, 2020

Published Jan 29…

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