The Fifth Column

* If you think it’s expensive now, wait until it’s free

* Unpersuasive persuasion

* How race is like probiotic soda

* Ends and means

* "If one killing is justified, where do you draw the line—10,000? A million?"

* Siouxsie and the Nazis / Bill Grundy

* Tinder Trotskyists

* More “memoirs about trauma and identity”

* ‘Oh, they’re taxing us, let’s go murder people.’

* 23andme and Zor…

* The Daniel Penny verdict

* REinstitutionalization

* When should the state involuntarily commit?

* Remember, she was a very bad candidate

* The great exhale

* Joe and the Squad

* A fake Portuguese guest

* Barro blowback?

* On the Substack revolution

* The repulsive Luigi Mangioni

* The failed Kaczynski

* And much more!

One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome to the Fifth Column One Hitter! In our inaugural episode, Matt and Moyn get pissed off about the hideous reaction from certain very online cretins to the awful murder of Uni…

* Little Moynihan’s pediatric cancer fundraiser can be found here! This might be the opposite of an incentive, but a random donor will be chosen for a personalized roast video from Moyn and his daughter…

* The idiot winds (That “One More Cup of Coffee” live performance MM referenced)

* Pete Hegseth replaced by Ronny D?

* Ok, you asked for it…with new information, the lads return to the Hunter pardon

* "Is he really doing something injurious?"

* Preemptive pardons?

* The uselessness of cable “news”

* Addicted to privilege

* Was Trump the great deregulator?

* And whole lot more!

* The boys had just heard the Biden pardon news. So much they missed about the specifics…and this brilliant video had not yet been created.

* Citizens of the Fifdom debate RFK

* The professional Youtube debaters

* Teens and true crime

* JonBenet

* How to interview your dad

* A listener asks: Is Dan Crenshaw the worst?

* Park Slope politics and the crotch Magen David

* The M…

As a Thanksgiving treat, an unlocked Members Only episode featuring Moynihan in conversation with Dr. Alan Levinovitz, author of Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science and The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat, about RFK’s view of public health, why you are fat, the myth of “natural,” and why so many people have stopped trusting “the science.”

We won’t be unlocking any subscriber-only episodes for awhile so…subscribe!

* Pete’s past

* Friends with a murderer

* Roofie vending machines

* The worst cabinet pick?

* Trans snakes that play golf

* Damn dirty commies 

* The three things reds do well

* A store called Store 

* That truck is still with Kamala 

* Little Baron’s soooooooootcase

* One black woman’s quest

* Biased bookstores

* Axios: Trump’s liberal cabinet 

* ChatGPT is wrong about everything

* Back to Cormac

An hour with Semafor founder Ben Smith discussing the sorry state of the media, followed by a Smith-free hour with the lads discussing, among other things, two very different people who nevertheless shared a very deep love of young people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* Kmele: Forever the HNIC

* The Filet-O-Fish is Alaska pollock

* A Swedish horror show

* RFK at HHS

* He forgot to mention this stuff…

* Elon’s principles?

* On Matt Gaetz and John Bolton

* You know, we had a pretty good record on Covid…

* Moulton v. a Salem Witch

* A listener’s Irish-Catholic family is falling apart

* That fake Netflix fight

Michael Moynihan sits down with Bard College professor Sean McMeekin to discuss his new book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, a Fifth-approved history of the global communist movement, from the ur-commie instincts of Plato to the sinister stupidities of Plekhanov. They also contemplate why so many smart people fall for ba…