The Fifth Column

w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News)

- BuzzFeed's Day in Court

- About That Dossier

- Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism

- Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History

- Newsroom Diversity

- Indisputably Racist

ALSO:

- Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control

- The Best Laid Plans

- Another Shutdown

- GoFundMe Governance

- Trust Issues

Recorded: PM 12/22/2018

Published: 12/23/2018

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w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight")

- Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right)- Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech

AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- Fukuyama was wrong, but none of you assholes read “the end of history” - Matt Says "Yemen" on MSNBC- Norms

Recorded: PM 12/13/2018Published: 12/15/2018

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Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City.

With Guests: Michael Barbaro, "The Daily" (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, "30 for 30" and "The Five-Thirty-Eight Politics Podcast" (Five-Thirty-Eight, ESPN)

"On Speech Controversies and The State of Journalism After Two Years of Trump."

Recorded: 12/4/2018 (@ The Comedy Cellar in New York City)Published: 12/6/2018

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w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times)

- *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores

Recorded: PM 11/29/2018Published: 11/30/2018

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Kmele facilitates a wide-ranging conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism. With: Glenn Loury - Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University - Host, The Glenn Show @ bloggingheads.tv Thomas Chatterton Williams- Author, "Losing My Cool"- Contributing writer @ New York Times Magazine. - National Fellow at New America, where he’s completing a new book project about ‘being the black father of white-looking children in Paris’. John McWhorter - Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Music at Columbia- Host, Slate’s "Lexicon Valley" Podcast- Writes for the Atlantic

Coleman Hughes- Undergraduate Philosophy major at Columbia University, and a columnist at Quillette

Recorded:11/17/2018Published: 11/22/2018

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- Phallic Humor- "We'll Do It Live" (In NYC, Next Month)- The Midterms (For People Who Kind of Hate Midterms)- The "Fuck You" Vote- Beto, Gillum, Abrams- Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement- Trump vs. Acosta Part 5: 'Why can't they both lose?'- Trump: 'That's A Racist Question!'- Sessions, Out. Mueller, Next?- Cocaine Mitch Warns the Dems- Dog Whistles, Guilt by Association, David Duke- What Indiana Really Means- SIWT (Ezra Klein, Vox)- Surprisingly Serious Journalism Talk Recorded: PM 11/7/2018Published: 11/8/2018

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w/ Noah Rothman

(Associate Editor, Commentary -- Contributor, MSNBC/NBC News)

Author of the forthcoming book: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019)

- Plausible Deniability- Perspectives on Pipe Bombs and Synagogue Attacks- Speculation, Motive- Violence in a most Peaceful Era - The, Lou Dobbs- Persuading Donald Trump- The Populist Moment- Brazil- Egalitarian Jihadi Recorded: PM 10/29/2018Published: 10/31/2018

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A conversation with Sarah Haider

- Origin Stories- Identity, Tribal Affiliation- Islam, Muslims, Apostasy, and Atheism- Difficult Conversations- The Intellectual Dark Web- Courage

Recorded: July 22nd, 2018

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w/ Josh Szeps, (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of "#WeThePeople LIVE" and “The People Versus”

(Recorded - 10/16/2018)

- Australia's Sweetheart, but his father *was* even more famous- Kmele saw "First Man," Norman Mailer stabbed his wife- Kanye at the White House- This disappearing of Jamal Khashoggi- The end of American moral exceptionalism?- Doing business with the House of Saud- Proud Boys v. Antifa- "Choose a side"- Kmele v. Josh

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w/Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at The Daily Beast

(Recorded - 10/10/2018)

-Three Very Fine Bottles of Wine-Soros: boogeyman on a global scale-Anti-semitic dog whistles or nah?-Harry (literally) co-wrote the book on Rudy Giuliani-The era of conspiracy theory-Fact checkers suck-Trump's USA Today op-ed-Everyone hates P.C.—but what is P.C.?-Are the politically disengaged really the "center"?-Dying online from the outrage mobs-"Chinese finger trap"-The Mohammad cartoons and Charlie Hebdo-Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford's lives from here-What is your reputation worth?

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