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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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  • The Memory Hole & the Rent Freeze Trap (w/ Josh Barro) - #539

    The Memory Hole & the Rent Freeze Trap (w/ Josh Barro) - #539
    Jan 8 2026

    We’re joined by Josh Barro, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times and host of the Very Serious and Central Air Substack

    -Feldstein, Leibowitz, Berkowitz, and White Nationalist Moynihan

    -The Nancy Pelosi Riot, 5 years later

    -An ICE shooting in Minneapolis

    -Morally disgusting and electorally advantageous

    -Marco Rubio’s Spine Transplant

    -Memory-Holing Anarchy

    -The Warmth of Collectivism

    -Rent Control Suicide

    -Affordability In Davos

    -The NY John Lindsay Pretty Boy Republican Problem

    -Greenland Extortion

    -Maduro Snatch and Grab

    -Black Elliott Abrams

    -Are straight people okay?

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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Kevin Williamson Is The Darkness - Members Only #294

    Kevin Williamson Is The Darkness - Members Only #294
    Jan 6 2026
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    •Belated Christmas gifts from Matt

    •Who’s got the biggest war boner?

    •Lysander Spooner, still bringing people together after all these years

    •Kevin’s had four kids in 19 months. You do the math.

    •How to tell the kids apart? Tattoo ‘em!

    •Build, Baby, Build

    •Romney the virile tribal chieftain

    •Trump’s faux presidential run

    •Venezuela and the subtle differences be…
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    22 mins
  • One Hitter: Maduro Snatch 'n Grab with Thor Halvorssen (Members Only #293)

    One Hitter: Maduro Snatch 'n Grab with Thor Halvorssen (Members Only #293)
    Jan 4 2026
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com

    One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome back to the Fifth Column One Hitter!

    This time Matt and Moyn are joined by Human Rights Foundation founder—and Venezuelan dissident, despite the Norwegian name—Thor Halvorss…
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    12 mins
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