The Fifth Column / Podcast

19/09/2025

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16/09/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only Episode is out.

Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)

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12/09/2025

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Episode 523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Listen now (100 mins) | A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death.

06/09/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only Episode is out.

Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both…

06/09/2025

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Episode #522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)

The video age is upon us

Sweet Jane

Crazy Nancy

I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up

You have a microphone. Just TELL US.

Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, p**o hunter

A revolt at HHS

The conspiratorial mind

Failing the logic test

Malcolm Gladwell comes clean. Moynihan doesn’t forgive

Taboo busting b/w forbidden topics

A hunch that they were lying…

Europe changed. Everyone pretended not to notice

The UK’s decent into mindless illiberalism

Graham Linehan demands something from the Fifth…we demurred

Reanimating the dead, only to kill them again

And so much more!

The video age is upon us

01/09/2025

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Episode #521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

We’re buying Ho***rs

Glamorous hairstyling

Look it up, people

The caudillo and the talk show host

Hega-stan

MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything!

The era of state capitalism is upon us

Burn yer flags

Right-wing ACLU

One more time: the government is bad at things

A history of privatization

Lisa Cook and the Cult Jam

The coming violence?

MAGA Panthers

And so much more…

A barrel of crackas

01/09/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only Episode is out.

On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams

Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american politics, the backlash of the Trump years, and the ideological hangover of 2020’s “racial reckoning.”

Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that revisits the (or at least Thomas’) optimistic feelings toward the Obama moment in american politics, the backlash of the Trump years, and the ideol...

01/09/2025

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Episode #520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?

Tahoe plague

The Swiss lobby

Hate your kids

They seem like nice kids

If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die

Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive

The root of “root causes”

Free the guilty

White Hippies

Right-wing cancel culture

Chicago needs this more than DC ]

We kind of disagree about the Smithsonian

This is absurd

Ancient Chinese custom, eh?

It was AI, Matt. She’s still hot.

I love you, Sanna

Tahoe plague

01/09/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, N**i Historians, Late Capitalists

A Spanish Harlem incident

01/09/2025

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Episode #519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

Below the Mendoza Line

Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer

Stallone’s Bergman period

Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?

The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books

An especially bad Munich analogy

NATO, NATO, NATO

Purely defensive? Well…

Perhaps it made sense at the time…

The Olympic graveyard

A test for the post-war European left

Won’t somebody just *do something*

In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg

The politics of DC crime

A city of Haley Barbours

Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC

Some notes on Ken Burns

Below the Mendoza Line

01/09/2025

A new Fifth Column Members-Only episode is out.

Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)

A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Billy Joel, Brits, Americans, the Swiss, stupid people, smart people, and white people.