The Fifth Column
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Europe Is Melting, Meritocracy Is Racist, and Everyone Gets Dignity
Oct 7, 20261h 35m
One Hitter: Why Oil Prices Could Get Much Worse (w/ Marshall Adkins) Members Only #348
Oct 3, 202644 min
The Weave Within the Weave
Oct 2, 20261h 30m
Sarah Hepola and the Life You Didn’t Choose (Members Only #347)
Sep 29, 202614 min
The UN, Wokeness, and Other Failed Institutions (Members Only #346)
Sep 25, 202613 min
The Algorithm Is the Editor-in-Chief (w/ David Pakman) Members Only #345
Sep 23, 202615 min
The Loyal Republican w/ Scott Jennings (#576)
Sep 22, 20261h 40m
Academically Unserious With Authoritarian Bureaucratic Aspirations (w/ Tyler Austin Harper) Members Only #344
Sep 18, 202617 min
AI Might Kill Us. Here’s Why It Matters: w/ Jim VandeHei (#575)
Sep 16, 20261h 48m
The Things We Thought After 9/11 (#574)
Sep 11, 20261h 30m
The Department Formerly Known as Justice (w/ Devlin Barrett) MO 343
Sep 9, 202616 min
Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573
Sep 4, 20261h 38m
It Was All Just a Joke (Members Only #342)
Sep 2, 202615 min
Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)
Aug 28, 20261h 34m
Bad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341
Aug 26, 202614 min
Seize the Means of Conservatism (w/ Stephanie Slade) MO #340
Aug 21, 202613 min
Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)
Aug 19, 20261h 46m
Terry Moran and the Network News Autopsy (Members Only #339)
Aug 14, 202614 min
The Politics of Pretending (Episode #570)
Aug 12, 20261h 41m
A Man of 1989 (w/ David Frum) #569
Aug 7, 20261h 43m
Out of Whiskey and Reaching for the Rotgut (Members Only #338)
Aug 5, 202615 min
The Admirably Irresponsible Journalist w/ John R. MacArthur (Members Only #337)
Jul 31, 202620 min
The Fifth Gets a Substitute Teacher (w/ Jesse Singal) #568
Jul 29, 20261h 41m
The Temple Is Rich. The Monks Are Poor (w/ Frank Dikötter) Members Only #336
Jul 24, 202617 min
I Don’t Make Mistakes Anymore. They’re Just Lies (w/ Chris Cuomo) #567
Jul 22, 20262h 4m
The Gold-Plated Imperial Presidency (w/ Maggie Haberman) Members Only #335
Jul 21, 202618 min
The Denial of Reality Is a Powerful Drug (w/ Bret Stephens) - Members Only #334
Jul 17, 202616 min
There Is No They - #566
Jul 15, 20261h 31m
Failing "The God Test" (w/ Robert Wright) - Members Only #333
Jul 10, 202622 min
Are We the Baddies? The Graham Platner Reckoning (w/ Kat Rosenfield) - #565
Jul 8, 20261h 15m
The Revolution Will Be Staffed by PhDs (w/co-host Peter Meijer) - #564
Jul 2, 20261h 26m
Adam Carolla Has Nowhere Else to Go (Members Only #332)
Jul 1, 202615 min
One-Hitter: Sarah Isgur Explains the Supreme Court’s Big Finish (Members Only #331)
Jun 30, 20266 min
The Cadres and the Cabal (#563)
Jun 26, 20261h 36m
One Hitter: The DSA Takes NYC w/ Michael A. Cohen (Members Only #330)
Jun 24, 20269 min
Genocide Juice and the Socialist Machine w/Reihan Salam (Members Only #329)
Jun 24, 202616 min
The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)
Jun 19, 20261h 37m
Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)
Jun 17, 202619 min
The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)
Jun 12, 20261h 29m
A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)
Jun 10, 202618 min
When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326)
Jun 5, 202618 min
Populism for Morons, Journalism for Martyrs (Episode #560)
Jun 3, 20261h 36m
Senator Chris Murphy Wants You to Join a Cult (Members Only #325)
May 31, 202615 min
A Great Nation in Decline Welcomes Australia’s Finest w/ Josh Szeps (Members Only #324)
May 29, 202618 min
Ben Rhodes and the Evil Empire State of Mind (#559)
May 27, 20261h 52m
Why'd You Gag Me, Preet Bharara! (Members Only #323)
May 25, 202619 min
TFC LIVE in DC at w/ Lulu Garcia-Navarro & Robby Soave - Members Only #322
May 24, 202622 min
Matt Yglesias on Cancellation, Mamdani, and the AI Panic (Members Only #320)
May 22, 202617 min
The Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (episode #558)
May 20, 20261h 3m
When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)
May 14, 20261h 45m