The Fifth Column

(In No Particular Order)

• Live From New York
• DRINK
• AOC AMA
• CDC Press Conference 
• Mask Etiquette
• DRINK
• Derek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1)
• Eight Fingers Left
• Tar Babies
• A Thing Greater Than Yourself
• Voter Suppression 2.0
• DRINK
• Corporate Welfare
• Five Pinocchios
• Ending Ken Burns
• The Cowardly Doormen

Recorded April 1st, 2021

Published April 3rd, 2021

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• Kmele Loses an Entire Dispatch
• Moynihan's Most Racist Voice
• Important Homework
• What We Might Have Talked About
• Mass Shootings
• Hate Crime Hysterics and Lies
• Ending the War in Afghanistan
• Nationa Building
• Whale Watching + 400 Years of Suffering
• Leaving Sesame Street

Recorded March 25th, 2021

Published March 26th, 2021

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Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University

• Snyder Cut
• Sympathy for Dictators
• Useful Pretense of Justice
• How Did Sachs Get It So Wrong
• State of the New Culture War
• Free Speech Hypocrisy
• The Left Is Worse, Right?
• Power Imbalance
• Coastal Myopia
• What if We're Wrong (Again*)

Recorded March 18th, 2021

Published March 22th, 2021

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Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported"

• Keeping Secrets
• Coming 2 America
• Transphobia is Bad
• A Most Prescient Cancelation
• Say THE WORD, Katie
• They'll Never Give You A Reson
• The Tax Code is Racist
• Plato's Utopia
• Rescue Package in Name Only
• Tucker Carlson, Mean Person
• Tinker Taylor, Toy Soldier
• Virtual Ball Busting
• Pretending Things Ain't Complicated
• The Shape of A Joke
• The Many Trials of George Floyd
• RIP DC

Recorded March 10th, 2021

Published March 12th, 2021

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Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York Times

• From BuzzFeed to The NYT
• When Your Bosses are Kinda THE Story
• Why We Can't Stop Talking About The Times
• Newsroom Cultural
• White Privilege and Employee Orientation
• Resignations*
• Caliphate vs. 1619
• "My Notebook Remains Open"
• Losing the Newsroom
• You Will Sign This Letter
• Vanilla Mandella
• Biggie Smalls
• When Van Met Ibram X
• Simple, Elegant, Almost Certainly Wrong
• Things Get Worse for Cuomo

Recorded March 2nd, 2021

Published March 4th, 2021

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Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc"

• Niggarati
• Privilege Childhood
• The Art of the Substack Deal
• The Shift
• An Active Conspiracy or An Active Conspiracy
• The Escape, And Uncertain Horizon
• It's Just a Camp, For Kids, So It's Fine
• Trump at CPAC
• A Good Shoot
• Bidenomics
• Listen to Black People
• Didn't Even Say The Word

Recorded Feb 24th, 2021

Published Feb 25th, 2021

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Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public"

• Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest Frameworks
• From Information Monopoly to Information Tsunami
• Public Dissatisfaction
• Elites in Crisis
• Public Nihilism
• Historical Amnesia
• The Yellow Vests, Jan 6th, 2021
• Political Sectarianism
• Truth + Objectivity + Resentment
• Drama at the New York Times
• The Future of Media and Truth
• Plato's Perfect Form of Justice
• Fact Check

Recorded Feb 17th, 2021

Published Feb 18th, 2021

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• Pump and Dump
• Matt Bought Crack
• Real Compton City Gs
• Really Only One Bad Word
• The Public Interest
• Irrelevant Context
• MTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress?
• "I Can Only Be a Non-White Person"
• Why The Culture War Matters
• Merit: The Racism of Fairness Racist
• Covid Cumo, And the Incurious Media

Recorded Feb 3rd, 2021

Published Feb 5th, 2021

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Guest: Van Lathan @ "Higher Learning" (Co-Host), Previously @ TMZ

Kmele and Van connect for a wide-ranging conversation about racism, reconciliation, and finding common ground. It's yet another exercise in constructive disagreement. In fact, it's the back half of a three-hour discussion that managed to feature vanishingly few points of agreement -- and zero personal insults.

• Oculus Quest
• THOUGHT Warriors
• Uncle Tom: A Most Dangerous Man
• If Everyone Listened to Kmele...
• Listing + Reconciliation
• Representation
• Racecraft
• Strangefruit
• MLK and the FBI
• Juneteenth
• Candace Owens Brother

Recorded Jan 27th, 2021

Published Feb 3rd, 2021

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• Make a Mint w/ Moynihan
• Who's Behind the Squeeze
• On the War Path
• Strange Bedfellows
• Popularity Contests
• Even Libertarians
• Equity and Private Prisons
• Coming Attractions

Recorded Jan 28th, 2020

Published Jan 29th, 2020

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