Archive - The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

Second Sunday Coordinates 10/11

Things are getting scary

11 hrs ago • The Fifth Column

People Who Lie and People Who Die (w/ Sam Roberts) Members Only #349

Veteran New York Times journalist and obituary writer Sam Roberts discusses his new book, Are They Dead Yet?, about the art of obituaries and the lives…

21 hrs ago • The Fifth Column

1:20:30

Europe Is Melting, Meritocracy Is Racist, and Everyone Gets Dignity

Will somebody please get that big kid away from Vivek?

Oct 7 • The Fifth Column

1:33:36

Firehose #215: Fall Forward

Also: Vote for the thing

Oct 4 • Matt Welch

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Oct 3 • The Fifth Column and Michael C. Moynihan

One Hitter: Why Oil Prices Could Get Much Worse (w/ Marshall Adkins) Members Only #348

Marshall Adkins, a longtime oil and gas analyst at Raymond James, joins the Fifth to explain why the current energy crunch is really about diesel…

Oct 3 • The Fifth Column

39:52

The Weave Within the Weave (#577)

Trump talks to Time, MAGA defends Western civilization, Eric Schmitt confuses the Hawks with the Hawkeyes....

Oct 2 • The Fifth Column

1:28:53

September 2026

Sarah Hepola and the Life You Didn’t Choose (Members Only #347)

Sarah Hepola joins the guys to discuss her new memoir, The Only Thing There Is to Want

Sep 29 • The Fifth Column

1:47:14

Firehose #214: Me & My Cohort Helped Ruin NYC Schools, and All I Got out of it Was Two Lousy NYT Magazine Cover Stories

Also: Never learn not to hate losing #Never100

Sep 27 • Matt Welch

The UN, Wokeness, and Other Failed Institutions (Members Only #346)

General Assembly, public schools, Australia, Bill Burr, and the state of the world….and a few other things. Wait why are we talking about Australia? Oh…

Sep 25 • The Fifth Column

1:41:12

The Algorithm Is the Editor-in-Chief (w/ David Pakman) Members Only #345

David Pakman has a new book about what the internet is doing to our brains. We invited him on to make things worse.

Sep 23 • The Fifth Column

1:24:44

The Loyal Republican w/ Scott Jennings (#576)

CNN senior contributor and Republican strategist Scott Jennings joins to defend Trump, explain the new GOP, and litigate tariffs, Greenland, Tucker…

Sep 22 • The Fifth Column

1:38:48

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