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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

De : Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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 Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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  • When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)

    When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)
    May 14 2026
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    - Steven Pinker on why “common knowledge” is much stranger than it sounds

    -The social machinery behind weddings, money, and power

    -How a norm starts to die once someone breaks it and gets rewarded

    -Trump as the great destroyer of polite restraints

    -The institutions that lost the authority to enforce trust

    -How new taboos appear without anyone admitting who created them

    -T…
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    1 h et 45 min
  • Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)

    Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)
    May 12 2026
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    His next book, China Whisperers (out in November), looks at the diplomats, journalists, scholars, and China hands who shaped America’s understanding, and misunderstanding, of its chief geopolitical rival. But we pretty much cover the entire globe in this conversation.

    -The experts had it coming

    -Federalists, anti-federalists, and America’s oldest argument

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    20 min
  • Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

    Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)
    May 7 2026
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    -Kmele gets glasses

    -The return of Soho legs

    -Matt’s movie-theater race science

    -Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?”

    -Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent

    -A very leaky White House

    -Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set

    -Little Marco puts the best face on Iran

    -Welch discovers gas prices

    -The affordability caucus …
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    1 h et 24 min
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