The Fifth Column

* We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting “ripped off” by our (former?) allies.

* Note: …

* Tomorrow on The Moynihan Report: Actor and former fat guy Ethan Suplee (American History X, Wolf of Wall Street, Mall…

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* The Legend of Gavin and Charlie

* Bob in Tulsa

* Moyn in Miami

* The bumbling Signal Boyz

* We…

* Live tweeting history

* The importance of Jack

* The “climate of hate”

* Some of these goofballs are normal

* RIP Manny

* The fake ceasefire

* If only were weren’t a democracy…

* Back to Gaza

* Civil li…

* The golden age of Oaktown’s 357 ("I just put Juicy, Got Him Crazy into Chat GPT to determine what it's about and it i…

A rebroadcast of our last subscriber-only Second Sunday episode. Thomas Chatterton Williams stops by. Everyone’s in the…

* The one Jew she likes

* The amateur crank historian

* The cranks always end at…take a guess

* Kmele isn’t interested in Ms. Macron’s dong

* Show we draw some distinctions?

* Congrats to the Buchananites

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I was very moved by friend & past guest Jeff Blehar’s Covid anniversary piece, so … I just read it out loud. And added …

* A very long SOTU

* Al Green meets Buju Banton, Tripadvisor objects

* The most beautiful, terrifying word in the English language

* The “deficit” you shouldn’t care about

* The forgotten Foxconn boondo…

There’s some discussion of parenting. A tiny bit about the Oscars. And a bunch about the triumph of conspiracy culture.…

* Trump’s maturity

* Trump’s deal making

* Trump and NATO

* Trump vs. Europe

* Trump and Taiwan

* A price on Bolton’s head

* Is he a neocon?

* The traffickers of the Fifth Column

* The genius of Bill Belichick

* Those Boston boys aren’t so terrible after all

* Nick v. Stewart

* Democracy died in the light!

* The WaPo freakout

* The press po…

* RIP Roberta

* What’s the “woke right?” No idea.

* MAGA Brooklyn

* Reform Party 2000!

* Nadia didn’t pay, so…

* But does it…

* Matt vs. the Gremlins

* He lasts about 20 minutes

* Subscribe to the pod so he can stay at normal hotels that don’t use Compuserve

* Two minutes of Kayne and the Yahud

* Everything is a lie

* Free spe…

* If this plane crashes, it’ll just be ‘Steve Wozniak, Allen Iverson, and some other people’

* Murder motel in Huntingto…

So we took a few days off. We deserved it. Sort of. And after all, there were pilots to filmed, kids to be cared for, conferences to attend. Indeed, on Friday we gave a talk at a wonderful University…

* The hockey plumber

* A very brief return to tariffs

* Let’s fight the drug war again! Yay!

* Neocon Don wants to make Gaza great…for the first time

* This is a very, very bad idea

* Like…an extraordina…

We asked ChatGPT to give us some titles for this episode. Turned out to be a pretty decent précis of the discussion…and…

* First class mud hobbit

* At the 80th in Poland

* An executive flurry

* The interrogation of RFK

* In defense of pharma

* The interrogation of Kash Patel

* Give us Greenland, Part 32

* Overreach on DEI?

*…

* Moynihan in Poland (Katya stole his mic)

* Ronalda Reagana

* Know a Nowa Huta

* Onward to Auschwitz

* Maybe don’t speak t…