The Fifth Column

-- Aussie Impressions of a Missing Moynihan-- A Gay Dad’s Homophobia-- Australian Federalism; Who Knew?-- Libertarianism, Shmibertarianism!-- Islands Are Weird, Man-- QR Covid Tracking Is Totally Fine-- Concentration Camp or Exercise Yard?-- Anti-Science Quarantines-- What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong-- What Tyler Cowen Got Right-- The CRT/Abortion Parallels-- He’ll Come Visit Just as Soon as He Can Escape! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

- Lead Astray- Wrong Line- Blues Traveler- Sugar in his Tank- When in Kabul- Repeal/Replace/Keep the AUMF for another 20 years?- Matt's Basement is Flooding (No, Really)- 1/2 Trimester- The Reverend Dr. James P Eagle Sr- The Rule of Law- Playin Coach- Reading Playboy for the... Ads?Recorded: 9/1/21Published: 9/2/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

W/ Eli Lake, Opinion Columnist @ Bloomberg- New Dad- Moynihan's Big Night Out- Things to Remember (or Naw)- Meet Gutter (He Kidnaps Kids)- Whose on Top - The Most Inevitable Thing in the World- Hard Limits- Public Sentiments- Vietnam Syndrome- Hip Hop Conservatives- Afghan Clean Up- The Afghanistan VariantRecorded: 8/23/21Published: 8/25/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

W/ David French- Various Notes on the Amy Cooper Interview- The Enablers- Earnest Disagreement- The Two Illiberal Wings of Twitter- False Dichotomies, All The Way Down- Negative Partisanship and the Politics of Animosity- When ‘Your’ Base Turns on You- The Home Teams Defect- Structural, Systemic, Real, Imagined- Revising the CRT Bans- The Empty Promise of CRTPublished: 8/10/21 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Coco Shoots Her ShotGangs All HereNew York is Back**Real Winners Don't Bother Trying Carrying MJ Off The FloorJust QuitMasks + SuperstitionSave the BabiesSurprise 🎁The Stories We Refuse to Tell OurselvesIf It HappenedRecorded: 7.27.2021Published: 7.29.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

w/ Jonathan Rauch @ Author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Senior fellow @BrookingsInst. Contributing writer @TheAtlantic. - I Heart Lizzo- Where Things When Wrong- Flooding the Zone- Breaking Journalism- The Humanitarian Threat and Moral Clarity- Cancel Culture, Information Warfare, Social Coercion- Truth + Checking - Greatest Leap Forward - Ibram Orwell- Bans, Martyrs, Inevitable Failure- Separate, Equal. Same Great Taste.Recorded: 7.6.2021Published: 7.9.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

"Well, it's my show. So, it's how I wanna do it." - Joy-Ann Reid "I can do what I wanna do." - Bobby Brown"Whateva! Whateva! I do what I want!" - Eric Cartmanw/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute -- Contributing Editor, City Journal- When Rufo Met Reid- The Art of Culture War- Activist Journalist- Critical Race Theory: Boardroom, College Campus, Neighborhood Preschool- Bans, Censorship, Pedagogy, Choice- Machiavellian Realism, Pyrrhic Victories- Classical Liberal Caution, Libertarian Naïveté- The "Last" Word- Creed Wars and Culture Wars- Welch Reviews Robin DiAngelo's "Nice Racism"- "Doing The Work"- Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable- Pro Criminal Justice Reforms + Pro Putting People Under the Jail- Broken PromisesRecorded: 6.30.2021Published: 7.2.2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Kmele reveals his big secret!What on Earth is a "coupon Karen"?When Shaun Was KingWhen Kmele was king of Juneteenth Measuring the outrage economyMeasuring the wages of junk historyRacist car crashes"When the people fail, the concept fails"The end of Afghanistan (the war / the country) There's a perpetual riot goin' onAnother CRT digressionRIP to an entertaining, insane, narcissistic, possible murderer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric coastal elites, the back half of the show is, as usual, about how coastal elites are dumb, joyless, and boring. Something for everyone. - New York is back? Harry is back to tell us it never went away- Harry would rather be an effete, elitist jerk wearing his mask too long, thank you very much- The New York City mayoral race tells us nothing about America- The weirdness of Eric Adams- Check the crime, y'all- "Desegregating" NYC schoolsHarry Siegel Postgame- The increasingly annoying CRT debate- Defining truth in an era of lies- Pointless: the Joe and Vlad summit- More cyber war hawkishness from Moynihan (obviously) - The lessons we never learn from 9/11- The dangers of political violence--and of opposing (certain) political violence- You're wrong about Jeff Bezos's taxes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that hollow sound). Nursing hangovers and gasping in the heat, the lads stumble through the following pressing (and pointless) topics:- Those Miami shows were pretty fun, eh? - Wait, why exactly are we in Florida?- Kmele thinks Creepy Joe wasn't being creepy- The global minimum tax is dumb- Ransomware everywhere - This not wearing masks things is pretty great, innit?- COVID addicts, COVID miscellany- Kmele on the Fauci emails: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯- The end of Tiananmen- State violence works- And so very much more... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe