The Fifth Column

• Is Melania the greatest first lady since Florence Harding?
• Does MC Hammer hate Kmele?
• Let the sycophancy begin!
• Qanonsense
• Understanding the Trump voter
• We're all weird and wrong
• The new Republican Party i…

Guest: Anna Khachiyan @ "Red Scare" (Co-Host)

• Kinda Canceled
• Holding the Mic
• Outrage Boner
• Dirtbags
• Tight Sweaters, Tighter Shirts
• Mo' Impeachments
• The MAGA Riots
• Culpability
• Cultural Amnesia, Sweetest Taboos
• …

Welcome to 2021

• A Coup d'état? An Insurrection?
• A dark beginning? A despicable bookend? A world of shit?
• We'll get to that -- but we're gonna need a lot more booze.

Recorded Jan 6th, 2021

Published Jan 7…

- Kmele 2020

- AllyShip

- Secret Shows

- The Internet Never Forgets

- Trap Lord

- Burning the Witch (and maybe that annoying lady from down the street too)

- Puritanism Without The Fun

- Schadenfreude

- In…

Guest: Greg Lukianoff @ Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (President). Co-Author, "The Coddling of the American Mind"

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Recorded Dec 23rd, 2020

Published Dec 25th, 2020

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• New Views
• Demographic Considerations
• What Seems to Be The Problem Officer?
• The Honorable Minister
• Vaccine Rollout
• Careful Reporting
• Post Trump News Cycle
• The Flagrancy
• Predicting Apocalypse

Recorded Dec 17th,…

Look, you asked for it. Fifth fan favorite (ed - we really don't understand you people) and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss (né Gould) is back. And the results are wonderfully shambolic.…

"The Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible." - Five Deadly Venoms

• Way Out Of Line
• The Incredible Asshole Machine
• Related Contro…

An issue with the mics. An inspired fix. A nearly aborted dispatch manages to slide into your feed just in time for the stranges Thanksgiving in decades.

• A Rolling Start
• When Moynihan Met Oprah
• Coup d'é…

Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept

• The Move to Substack (https://greenwald.substack.com/)
• The Marvelousness of the Fifth Column
• The Job Market
• The Reply to Critics
• The Blow by Blow
• The Cult…

Guest: Jason Stanley @ Author, "How Fascism Works", Professor of Philosophy @ Yale.

• The Answer
• Extremely Online, Prospective Hypocrisy
• Cancel Culture
• No Tellin
• Trump's Blacketst Swan
• But He's a Fascist
• Crit…

• What Election?
• The Perils of Watching Cable News
• What You Talkin Bout Welch
• The Got'Damn Polls
• Anticipated Unrest
• Black Woman Stabbed, By Black Lives Matters Supporters?
• What Happens to the Media
• What Happe…

• Bannon's back. The New York Post isn't.  
• Don’t talk about Hunter!
• Are we living in a Techno Fascist Reich?
• Regulate, regulate, regulate
• The unforeseen consequences of deplatforming?
• Qanon inflation 
• To th…

• Moynihan's Old, New House
• COVID... is Fake?
• Siri, Do Black Lives Matter?
• Dueling Town Halls
• Everyone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really)
• The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability Politics
• Po…

Guest: Damon Root @ Reason Magazine, Author, "A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution"

• Trump Makes His Pick
• How Republicans Will Be Disappointed
• Court Packin…

NOTE: This dispatch was beleaguered by technical and logistical challenges. The audio actually turned out pretty good (all things considered), but the entire thing was very nearly scrapped. Those cha…

Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Corespondent @NBC News / MSNBC

• Making TV News During a Pandemic
• Doing Your Own Makeup
• Last Man in Midtown
• We're All You Tubers Now
• It'll Be a Blow-Out, Or It'll B…

Guest: Nancy Romemelmann, journalist and author of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder

Moynihan is back from Kenosha, and Nancy Rommelmann returns for an update on the goings-ons in P…

w / Tina Nguyen (White House Reporter @ Politico)

• Watching the RNC
• Trump's on Twitch
• Nasty Emojis
• The Fire Next Time (Kenosha Edition)
• "What's the big deal? Your insurance will pay for it?"
• Total Failure o…

w / Coleman Hughes

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Recorded Aug 21, 2020

Published Aug 23, 2020

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