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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

The Fifth Column, Matt Welch, Sean Carroll, Jason Mojica, Nadav Eyal

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • The Fifth Column

    Picking apart the news cycle, interrogating their guests, and always imbibing responsibly. With Michael Moynihan (Vice), Matt Welch (Reason), and Kmele Foster (Freethink)

  • Matt Welch

    Co-conspirator, The Fifth Column. Proprietor, The View Level. Editor at Large, Reason.

  • Sean Carroll

    Physicist, thinker, author. Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Host of Mindscape podcast. Most recent book - The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion.

  • Jason Mojica

    Peabody, duPont, and Ellie award-winning maker of things. Guy at Osprey Media. Contributor at Publishers Weekly. Blah blah blah.

  • Nadav Eyal

    Words, Yediot Aharonot and Ynet. Senior Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). I enjoy speaking on the 'Call Me Back' podcast. Talk to me about power, freedom and the Middle East.

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