The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Cancellations"
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197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Cancellations"

Glenn Greenwald,

Co-Founder @ The Intercept

Author, "No Place to Hide"


Thomas Chatterton Williams

Contributing Writer @ New York Times Mag

Author, "Self Portrait in Black and White"


After a little internet drama related to the Harper's Open Letter, Kmele got together w/ Thomas and Glenn to discuss.


  • Why we needed "A Letter on Justice and Debate"

  • Why Glenn isn't a Signatory

  • What is Cancel Culture

  • Do we really need to talk about this RIGHT NOW

  • Evangelism or Excommunication

  • Hypocrisy and Healthier Conversations


Recorded July 24, 2020

Published July 27, 2020



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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.