The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column, Matt Welch, Blocked and Reported, Robert Wright, Terry MoranYour weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 1196 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Mailbucket #23: Draft Riots
You know the drill: We get more email than we know what to do with, and when the quantity of quality fills up too high, we slosh ‘em out here in a Mailbucket, with some slight editing/hyperlinking, plus tasteful, non-A.I. retorting. This mo...
Bad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341
Ben Smith, Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of Semafor, joins for his fifth appearance.
How does Semafor make money and what is the best magazine in the world? Well…why don’t you smash that subscribe button and/or whip out that credit card if...
Firehose #209: Take Off? Eh.
Hello et bonjour from lovely, whimsical, and also a wee bit shabby Montreal, where I’m currently dropping off the firstborn (pictured) at her frankly pretty swank freshman dorm. “Dad, what is ‘intersectionality?’” was a question I heard yes...
Seize the Means of Conservatism (w/ Stephanie Slade) MO #340
Reason’s Stephanie Slade on the ideas that built the modern right, the forces tearing it apart, and what might come next.
Stephanie Slade’s new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, is available for pre-or...
Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)
-Greetings…oh, fuck
-Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss
-Clip Roulette
-Tucker and the Demon Bomb
-Jason Arday, martyr?
-The Jonah Lehrer comparison
-The Samantha Power mic disaster
-Fuck you Joaquin
-John Mearsheimer, Steph...
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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.
The first podcast.
Author of The Evolution of God, Nonzero, The Moral Animal, and Why Buddhism Is True. Host of the Nonzero podcast. Publisher of the Nonzero newsletter on Substack.
Independent journalist, formerly with ABC News. I publish a Substack newsletter called “Real Patriotism,” and host a podcast by the same name on YouTube.
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