The Fifth Column

w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight")

- Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on …

Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City.

With Guests: Michael Barbaro, "The Daily" (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, "30 for 30" and "The Five-Thirty-Eight Poli…

w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times)

- *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- Ch…

w/ Noah Rothman

(Associate Editor, Commentary -- Contributor, MSNBC/NBC News)

Author of the forthcoming book: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019)

A conversation with Sarah Haider

- Origin Stories- Identity, Tribal Affiliation- Islam, Muslims, Apostasy, and Atheism- Difficult Conversations- The Intellectual Dark Web- Courage

Recorded: July 22nd, …

w/ Josh Szeps, (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of "#WeThePeople LIVE" and “The People Versus”

(Recorded - 10/16/2018)

- Australia's Sweetheart, but his father *was* even more famo…

w/Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at The Daily Beast

(Recorded - 10/10/2018)

-Three Very Fine Bottles of Wine-Soros: boogeyman on a global scale-Anti-semitic dog whistles or nah?-Harry (literally) co-wrote…

-Kanye West's very MAGA SNL Appearance-Getting Totally Kavanaugh Faced-Moynihan at the Mississippi Trump Rally-Believe All Women-Bari Would Have Hated Kavanaugh in High School-Kavanaugh's Kamikaze-Ap…

"We're back, You're Welcome" - The Fifth

(Recorded: September 19th, 2018)

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Pusha T's new album and Whitney Huston's bathroom countertop. Bobby Brown's prerogative. Was it Maurice Starr (or) Lou Pearlman? Remembering a 'Mavric'*. Jack Shafer wrote a bad piece. You can’t crit…

Karl Malone, Post Malone. Manafort, Cohen. John Brennan's Clearance. 'The Verge of Civil War' or Just 'The Usual Bullshit.' Rutgers, White Privilege, and Gentrification. Asia Argento. A FIRE for All …

w/ Jesse Singal (Contributing writer at New York Magazine | Author, "The Quick Fix")

- Jesse's New Book- Jesse's Atlantic Cover Story ('When Children Say They’re Trans')- Omarosa vs Trump- Unite the R…

w/ Jessica Tarlov (Bustle, FoxNews Contributor)

- The Case Against Impeachment [ Mike Pence Would Be Worse ]- Kmele at MSNBC [ How To Be An Uncle Tom ]- Owning the Libs, Beefin on Twitter- Libs vs. So…

(Recorded Aug 1st, 2018)

- Moynihan Meets D'Souza, Trump Jr

- Kmele Finishes A Story

- Sarah Jeong: Racist or Racist?

- Russian Hacking + Facebook

- QAnon

- Trump, Manafort, Witch Hunt

- Some Idiot Wrote Th…

w/ Jane Coaston (Senior Politics Reporter, Vox)

- Jane's Origin Story

- What Conservatives REALLY Want

- 'Locking HER Up'

- Ignoring Michael Cohen

- Facebook's Holocaust Problem

(Recorded Wednesday, July 2…

w/ Ben Domenech (Publisher, The Federalist)

Acting Trans, Scaling the BuildingRussian IndictmentsTrump/PutinThe New Vietnam SyndromObama's Mandela SpeechWould that we could all say [that one word] - P…

Foster and Fisher are joined by legendary civil liberties attorney Ken White (of Popehat blogger and Twitter fame) and Damon Root (Reason's resident SCOTUS journalo and the author of "Overruled") to …