Below the Mendoza Line
Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer
Stallone’s Bergman period
Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?
The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books
An especially bad Munich analogy
NATO, NATO, NATO
Purely defensive? Well…
Perhaps it made sense at the time…
A test for the post-war European left
Won’t somebody just *do something*
In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg
The politics of DC crime
A city of Haley Barbours
Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC
Some notes on Ken Burns
#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
Aug 14, 2025
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.
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.Listen on
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