The Fifth Column

We can't believe it. Neither can you. It's our 200th episode!! (Well, not including the thirty-plus, subscriber-only Patreon episodes, which are looser, bawdier, and even more problematic...so stop f…

• Drugs You Should Try
• Heroine, A Black Drug?
• Black People Are All The Same
• Voter Fraud, by Mail
• Selecting A VP
• Cognitive Tests (Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV)
• Scare Tactics
• Suburban Lifestyle Dreams
• The Stat…

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

Nancy Rommelmann, friend of the Fifth and former resident of Portland, Amerikkka, returns from th…

Glenn Greenwald,

Co-Founder @ The Intercept

Author, "No Place to Hide"

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Contributing Writer @ New York Times Mag

Author, "Self Portrait in Black and White"

After a little internet…

We haven't unlocked a Patreon episode since way back in February. But we (Moynihan) were feeling generous, so here's a paywalled bonus episode from July 13, liberated for all of you cheapskates. You'…

w/ Josh Szeps (né Zepps), ABC Australia and host of the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast.

Josh-o's back and the dingo has his baby! Australia's most listened-to radio host joins the Fifth from his …

Two-plus hours with our favorite German, Herr Yascha Mounk, contributing editor at The Atlantic and founder of Persuasion, a publication dedicated to promoting and defending the "values of a free soc…

w/ Wesley Lowery Correspondent @ CBS - "60 Minutes in 6"

Lowery Wrote A Thing:

"A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists" (NYT) - June 23, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/o…

w/ Jacob Siegel, Senior Writer @ Tablet

"The New Truth" (June 22nd 2020)

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-truth-rationalism-religion

"Journalists Abandoning 'Objectivity' for 'Moral …

w/ Jane Coaston, Senior Politics Reporter @ Vox

• Some Sports Stuff
• TickTock Swiftboats
• Tulsa
• Trumps Party
• What Comes Next
• Immigration + Visas
• The Coaston Plan
• More Black Lives Matter Talk
• But What About....
• Unb…

w/ David French, Senior Editor @ The Dispatch and Columnist @ Time

• Help With Your Down Payment?
• A Busy Day For SCOTUS
• 2A, Qualified Immunity (Part I), Expanding Civil Rights
• Thought Crimes
• On Racism (and …

w/ Olivia Nuzzi, Washington Correspondent @ New York Magazine

• An Unprecedented Movement
• Defunding the Police... Or Just Abolishing Them
• Canceling Most Things, Razing The Rest
• Moral Clarity in the News Ro…

• A Brief History of Right Now
• Punk Police
• It Might Actually Be Legal
• Black on Black on Black
• Bending the Knee
• NYT Civil War
• Essentialism in Practice
• Law & Order
• Passover
• MLK on Riots

Recorded:6/4/2020

Published:…

Kmele facilitates a follow-up conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism -- this time, in the midst of a global pandemic and increasing social unrest. You can find the first installment in this se…

She wrote a column in the New York Times. She failed to mention her favorite podcast. She mentioned other podcasts. She texted us asking if she could come on the show to apologize. We agreed. Bari We…

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis)

Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz

Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64)

Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Jo…

w/ Ethan Strauss Writer @ Athletic, Author "The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty" (2020)

- Getting Political

- NBA vs China

- Bad Deals and Bad Economics

- The Incomparabl…

w/ Rep Justin Amash US Congressman (Michigan's 3rd Congressional District) and 2020 Libertarian Presidential Hopeful

U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2011, and curre…

w/ Glenn Greenwald Co-founding Editor @ The Intercept, Host @ "System Update"

A once in a century pandemic is producing unique and daunting challenges to civil liberties around the world. What are the…

w/ Jonah Goldberg Editor-in-Chief @The Dispatch, Host @ The Remnant Podcast

President Trump has an inspired idea for arresting a global pandemic. It involves ultraviolet rays, disinfectant washes -- a…