The Fifth Column
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. www.wethefifth.com
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Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * See below for the video version of this episode! * Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens * How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics * Backwards towards “artisanal” * How will a NatCon economy perform? * It ain’t
A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, plus extended outro on the murder in Charlotte and subsequent discussion about race. This is a public episode. If you'd lik
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com * You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both… * Waiting for Bill and Ted * A catalogue of bad prophecies * 7th Day Youtube * Jamicanon * Yakub and the Atlantians * War with Venezuela? * Was Katrina racist * “Heritage Americans
* The video age is upon us * Sweet Jane * Crazy Nancy * I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up * You have a microphone. Just TELL US. * Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter * A revolt at HHS * The conspiratorial mind * Failing the logic test * Malcolm Gladwell comes clean. Moynihan doesn’t forgive * Taboo busting
* A barrel of crackas * We’re buying Hooters * Glamorous hairstyling * Look it up, people * The caudillo and the talk show host * Hega-stan * MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything! * The era of state capitalism is upon us * Burn yer flags * Right-wing ACLU * One more time: the government is bad at things * A history of pri
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american pol
