The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column, Matt Welch, Matthew Yglesias, Michael A. Cohen, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Josh Szeps, Chris Murphy, Preet Bharara, Ben RhodesYour weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.
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One Hitter: The DSA Takes NYC w/ Michael A. Cohen (Members Only #330)
Michael A. Cohen joins to unpack New York’s left-wing primary sweep, the candidates behind it, and what their wins say about the Democratic Party.
Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts University’s Fletcher Sc...
Genocide Juice and the Socialist Machine w/Reihan Salam (Members Only #329)
We are joined by Reihan Salam, president of the Manhattan Institute, to discuss Mamdani, taxpayer-funded activism, downwardly mobile elites, organized resentment, and the new war on competence.
-Ethnicity as performance
Firehose #200: Happy (Founding) Fathers Day!
I hope you Fathers out there had as wonderful a Day as I was fortunate to experience—taking a lap around Staten Island with my girls on a history-boat with appropriate Semiquintennial thematics! Which was yet another reminder of something t...
The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)
-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans
-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse
-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal
-Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers
-Why can’t the hawks ever learn...
Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)
Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya!
Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Picking apart the news cycle, interrogating their guests, and always imbibing responsibly. With Michael Moynihan (Vice), Matt Welch (Reason), and Kmele Foster (Freethink)
Co-conspirator, The Fifth Column. Proprietor, The View Level. Editor at Large, Reason.
Blogger, journalist, podcaster, trying to get back to my roots.
Senior Fellow at The Center for Strategic Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Columnist MSNBC, Less-Suffering Lions Fan
American Jew. Host of "Batya!" on @NewsNation, 7PM Saturday, 11AM Sunday. Author of Bad News, Second Class, and The Jews & the Left.
Host of Uncomfortable Conversations, the safe space for dangerous ideas. Columnist at the Australian Financial Review. Devil's advocate. Ne'er-do-well. Male(ish)
U.S. Senator From Connecticut.
Patriotic American. Former US Attorney, SDNY. Banned by Putin. Fired by Trump. Host, Stay Tuned & Insider podcasts.
Pod Save the World. New York Times. Author: All We Say, After the Fall, and the World As It Is. Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security advisor. Knicks and Mets.
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