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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

By: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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 Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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  • #519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

    #519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
    Aug 14 2025

    * Below the Mendoza Line

    * Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer

    * Stallone’s Bergman period

    * Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?

    * The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books

    * An especially bad Munich analogy

    * NATO, NATO, NATO

    * Purely defensive? Well…

    * Perhaps it made sense at the time…

    * The Olympic graveyard

    * A test for the post-war European left

    * Won’t somebody just *do something*

    * In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg

    * The politics of DC crime

    * A city of Haley Barbours

    * Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC

    * Some notes on Ken Burns



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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)

    Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)
    Aug 13 2025
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    A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people. And a bunch of other stuff…
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    20 mins
  • #518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War

    #518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War
    Aug 8 2025

    * A $750 late fee

    * Crazy train

    * Tariffapalooza 7.0

    * Making Modi mad

    * Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism

    * The Soviet Senator

    * A pen and phone guy

    * Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or just left alone to be awful?

    * Israel and the TikTok war

    * Tell me how this ends

    * And about a million other things…



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    1 hr and 29 mins
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