Archive - The Fifth Column (A Podcast)

Second Sunday Coordinates 9/13

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The Things We Thought After 9/11 (#574)

A quarter-century later, the guys revisit a moment when everyone was certain about something and almost nobody was normal.

Sep 11 • The Fifth Column

1:28:42

The Department Formerly Known as Justice (w/ Devlin Barrett) MO 343

We’re joined by New York Times reporter Devlin Barrett to talk Trump’s Justice Department, the revenge docket, and FBI dysfunction.

Sep 9 • The Fifth Column

1:52:18

Firehose #211: Capitalism Did Not Enslave You

Also: Ladies and gentleman, Chaim Vitz!

Sep 6 • Matt Welch

Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573

James B. Meigs joins the lads on 9/11 truthers, Tucker, data centers, rogue AI, Flock cameras, Texas politics, and UFOs

Sep 4 • The Fifth Column

1:37:10

It Was All Just a Joke (Members Only #342)

Milo Yiannopoulos discovers consequences, Sean Duffy discovers Sydney Sweeney, and MAGA discovers the joys of nationalization

Sep 2 • The Fifth Column

1:28:47

August 2026

Firehose #210: The Moynihan Shat

Also: Who is America’s most beloved living celebrity?

Aug 30 • Matt Welch

Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)

Our neighbors up north are pissed, the conspiracists are thriving, and somehow Kmele is still missing.

Aug 28 • The Fifth Column

1:32:35

Mailbucket #23: Draft Riots

Also: The white-trash gift that keeps on giving!

Aug 27 • Matt Welch

Bad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341

Ben Smith, Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of Semafor, joins for his fifth appearance.

Aug 26 • The Fifth Column

1:33:25

Firehose #209: Take Off? Eh.

Also: RIP Kathy Hayes

Aug 23 • Matt Welch

Seize the Means of Conservatism (w/ Stephanie Slade) MO #340

Reason’s Stephanie Slade on the ideas that built the modern right, the forces tearing it apart, and what might come next.

Aug 21 • The Fifth Column

1:15:43

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