The Fifth Column (private feed for bitterone31droid@googlemail.com)

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia UniversitySnyder CutSympathy for DictatorsUseful Pretense of JusticeHow Did Sachs Get It So WrongState of the New Culture WarFree Speech HypocrisyThe Left Is Worse, Right?Power ImbalanceCoastal MyopiaWhat if We're Wrong (Again*)Recorded March 18th, 2021Published March 22th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

The gangs all here. But everyone is everywhere. From San Francisco to Texas to New York City, the likely lads get together for yet another Patreon-only chinwag. All the necessary topics are covered. (Note: If you would like to buy this episode as an NFT--think of it as a podcast version of the Adopt-a-Highway program--you're completely insane but we will entertain bids). - Borderline. Feels like Moynihan's going to lose his mind- Tejanos and Trump- Kmele is non-foundational, says an idiot pickup artist- Hoping for a hate crime, policing the narrative- A massacre to serve your stupid political beliefs - The world is gaslighting us- Three cheers for Katie, says Mike- Good luck to Chris and his hot wife - NFT for the N-word- On Charlie Hebdo's Queen cover- Equity budgets. Equity departments. Equity everything- A Klansman and Clint Eastwood- Matt and Kmele on Murray Rothbard (and other libertarian delights) Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported"Keeping SecretsComing 2 AmericaTransphobia is BadA Most Prescient CancelationSay THE WORD, KatieThey'll Never Give You A ResonThe Tax Code is RacistPlato's UtopiaRescue Package in Name OnlyTucker Carlson, Mean PersonTinker Taylor, Toy SoldierVirtual Ball BustingPretending Things Ain't ComplicatedThe Shape of A JokeThe Many Trials of George FloydRIP DCRecorded March 10th, 2021Published March 12th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

- We can't talk about that, Kmele- Throw the baby in the river, says Queen Elizabeth- Nazis, Libraries, and Qaddafi's "Green Book"- Global racism is a lot like American racism- The Tawana Brawley of France precipitates a beheading- Lebron's bad ideas- Keeping an eye on Minneapolis- Masks and Mass death / how much credit does Biden deserve?- Should America's worst governor resign?- Bias within the podcast?- And much, much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele has to get on a plane. And he cares about putting his daughter to bed. Matt and Moynihan don't have to get on a plane. And don't care about their kids. So they called each other. And chatted for a few hours. - Yes, it actually is shitty that Dr. Seuss's books are being memoryholed - Dear god, Stephen Colbert is boring, earnest, and annoying- NBC: A deeply unpleasant woman is ackshually a victim of racism. We assume.- Note to NBC: Asia is....really big- A listener pushes back on the Seuss nonsense. We gently push back on him.- A doctor on the lockdowns and the loneliness crisis- A question about the Spanish Civil War books precipitates a nerdy answer. Sorry.- How the Balkan War broke the1960s- War movies for six year olds- Uri asks a random question about Gang Starr- Coming soon: Fifth Column Bravery Insurance! (*No Nazis allowed) Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York TimesFrom BuzzFeed to The NYTWhen Your Bosses are Kinda THE StoryWhy We Can't Stop Talking About The TimesNewsroom Cultural White Privilege and Employee OrientationResignations*Caliphate vs. 1619"My Notebook Remains Open"Losing the NewsroomYou Will Sign This LetterVanilla MandellaBiggie SmallsWhen Van Met Ibram XSimple, Elegant, Almost Certainly WrongThings Get Worse for CuomoRecorded March 2nd, 2021Published March 4th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

At long last, the pilot episode of our new series The Historians (or whatever we end up calling it). Pretty straight forward concept: every month, Moynihan talks to an academic about interesting moments, events, and epochs in history, going much deeper than most boring podcasts. Just for you Patreon subscribers. Our inaugural guest is right in MM's wheelhouse. In 2019, Harvard historian Duncan White published Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, an unputdownable chronicle of those brave, reckless, and deranged writers who waged a quiet war on (and occasionally on behalf of) Soviet totalitarianism. White and Moynihan chat about Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, le Carré, whether it was immoral for the CIA to fund literature and journalism, and that time when Duncan's neighbor was arrested as a Stasi agent.Enjoy. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc"NiggaratiPrivilege ChildhoodThe Art of the Substack DealThe ShiftAn Active Conspiracy or An Active ConspiracyThe Escape, And Uncertain HorizonIt's Just a Camp, For Kids, So It's FineTrump at CPACA Good ShootBidenomicsListen to Black PeopleDidn't Even Say The WordRecorded Feb 24th, 2021Published Feb 25th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

After a much-needed, well-deserved vacation, the lads are very happy to be back...and they've very generously given us yet another barn burner. Fortified by bad margaritas (well, Moynihan anyway...Welch appears to be drinking Becherovka mixed with Ripple), some important commentary on the most important topics of the day:- A MAGA scrum - Stop Snitchin' on Doghouse- Didn't anyone even try to stop Kmele???- Really rich people with "bad politics"- An honest worldview vs. a dishonest, reactive view of the world- NYC vaccine distribution is fucking *awful*- Why we now love annoying people at restaurants- Master Kmele's "dangerous rhetoric"- Tips for being a girl dad- Five Limericks- Yuri and the Serbian- A podcast recommendation- $420 pledge for a stoned Fifth episode- Does Matt even know any teachers??- What's happening with that rapper in Spain? Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public"Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest FrameworksFrom Information Monopoly to Information TsunamiPublic DissatisfactionElites in CrisisPublic NihilismHistorical AmnesiaThe Yellow Vests, Jan 6th, 2021Political SectarianismTruth + Objectivity + ResentmentDrama at the New York TimesThe Future of Media and TruthPlato's Perfect Form of JusticeFact CheckRecorded Feb 17th, 2021Published Feb 18th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.