The Fifth Column

* Moynihan in Poland (Katya stole his mic)

* Ronalda Reagana

* Know a Nowa Huta

* Onward to Auschwitz

* Maybe don’t speak to the far-right German party?

* Axis of anti-Woke

* Unimpressed with nation-states

* The Best Black History Month Report, EVER

* Lia vs. MLK Part II

* Rufo’s Sore "Winning"

* Activism vs. Truth

* Our “Blind spot”

* Yellow/Blue Dress Explained

* YOUR Outrage (Not Mine)

* Ove…

* The Zombies reunion

* Edibles and expressionism

* A ghost on the knee

* Who needs a desk when democracy’s dead?

* Outage equality

* Don’t ever integrate?

* Segregation redux

* Why Steve hates Elon

* Those terrible oligarchs

* Who needs the Constitution when we have executive orders?

* The Jan 6 pardons: a disagreement

* The art of the overcharge

* Ross Ulbricht goes home

* The sycophants are back!

* Are we suckers for paying?

* Gauleiter Musk

* Day one executive orders

* The newest, greatest Amazon Prime perk

* New national bird: Jim Eagle

* Pardon me?

* Guess what? Leonard Peltier is not a good guy!

* That Outside magazine article

* Inauguration babes

* Kmele’s letter to his daughter’s school

* Not our oligarchs!

* Ari Shaffir vs. Howie Mandel

* Governme…

* Melanie: the eternal First Lady

* A bad deal but…the only deal

* The same situation, over and over

* Joey B’s final babble

* Ike, Elon, and the unacceptable “oligarchy”

* The Ralph Lifshitz Award for Cultural Betrayal

* F**k You, Surgeon General, says Matt Welch

* The shittiest NYT story in recent memory

* A shitty celebration of murder on Jimmy Kimmel

* Pete H on the Hill

* Women in combat is not a weird debate

* RIP David Lynch

* RIP Bob Uecker

A rebroadcast of our most recent “Second Sunday” episode, during which paying subscribers can hop on a Zoom call, ask us questions, berate us, tell meandering stories, and be generically clever/hilarious/insane. On this episode, we talk to a number of people in Los Angeles about the ongoing conflagrations and the city government’s predictably feckless r…

* Black Bill Kristol

* Nobody beats the Rizz

* Stealing Greenland

* Yet another horrible big city mayor

* When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron

* Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown

* More on the 🔥

* Is big city governance killing progressivism?

* Your lying eyes

* Elon’s Nazis

* Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech

* The end of corporate walkout culture

* January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down

* Hobo stabs thug

* Lia the diva

* The era of athlete actors

* Moynihan correction: It was Bubba Smith in Police Academy. Dick Butkus was in Police *Story*.

* I want to make fun of my boss

* Awful political cartoons

* More on progressive schools

* Are you a hypocrite, MM?

* Reflections on Jimmy Carter, DPRK fan

* The neo-neocons?

* The vibe shift and the sense of the heroic (says MAGA Matt)

* Matt…

* No more Bobby

* No resolutions

* Pump it up: The bionic podcast host

* New Year’s terror in NOLA and Vegas

* The military connection that doesn’t matter

* The advent of “car ramming”

* In celebration of Chaim Sapir

* Forgotten terror

* When Charlie destroyed our faith in the media class

* Jimmy Carter’s awful op-ed

* Erasing Islamism

* Revisiting Rushdie

* Getting scammed by the “truth” people

* Broken kneecap policing

* An episode that takes a break from politics?

* Stars, tardigrades, and microscopy

* Race in space

* Matt and Moyn watch “A Complete Unknown,” come to different conclusions

* Phantom and 40mg

* AI’s take on this section: “Listener emails prompt discussions on art, personal struggles, and growth during the holidays.”

* Books for young men searching….

* Can The Man Who Shot L…

* Pivot to Zoom

* Rereading books

* The ex-presidents

* “It’s 1,547 pages of unreadable garbage. Every year, it’s like Christmas."

* Chip the RHINOOOOOO

* Elon’s Political Fantasy Camp!

* Is Trump losing his power to threaten?

* The end of AOC?

* Before his own inevitable perp walk, Mayor Adams does a hot assassin perp walk

* Insurance companies redux

* Kmele is a bad drinker

* Don Jr. trades up

* Barron is everyone’s boyfriend