The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
348 w/ Matt Taibbi "Richard Perle in New Jersey, Putin in Hell, Ukraine in Crisis"
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348 w/ Matt Taibbi "Richard Perle in New Jersey, Putin in Hell, Ukraine in Crisis"

  • Does the media have this conflict wrong?

  • The privatization of protest

  • Europe shutting down shitty, Kremlin-funded media

  • Wait, did Matt Taibbi just say he was warming to intervention?

  • Verdict: unclear

  • No due process for shitty, Kremlin-funded oligarchs

  • America's overlooked role in the beginnings of Putinism

  • Could Russia have been democratic?

  • Mearsheimer and the interminable NATO debate

  • The narcissism of Twitter war tourism

  • Taibbi post game

  • On Biden's SOTU speech

  • On the forgotten trade wars

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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.