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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

著者： 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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  • The Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (episode #558)

    The Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (episode #558)
    2026/05/20

    We talk about broken housing markets, broken healthcare, broken Congress, Trump’s corruption, a broken Cuba, Epstein, UAPs, and the tragedy of being a drummer with no place to practice.

    -Making music is for rich kids now

    -From jazz drummer to Hillary field organizer

    -Sandy Hook, March for Our Lives, and the road into politics

    -Florida’s felon disenfranchisement fight

    -Guns, swamps, Confederate flags, and talking to people who don’t like you

    -Florida’s politics are red… its ballot issues are a lot messier.

    -Gaining political power is easy. Keeping it is the hard part.

    -The case for going big, whether Congress likes it or not

    -Housing abundance, rent hikes, and the great pet-fee wars

    -Donald Trump’s extremely lucrative career in public service

    -Biden’s DOJ, Brazil’s crackdown, and the problem with accountability theater

    -Political violence, Trump’s rhetoric, and blaming the victim

    -UAPs, Epstein files, and the bipartisan hunt for weird stuff

    -Cuba, war powers, and why Frost doesn’t want another Venezuela-style adventure

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

    When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)
    2026/05/14
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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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  • Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)

    Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)
    2026/05/12
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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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