The Fifth Column

w/ Glenn Greenwald Co-founding Editor @ The Intercept, Host @ "System Update"A once in a century pandemic is producing unique and daunting challenges to civil liberties around the world. What are the necessary compromises? Where are the non-negotiable red lines? And what are those mysterious bright lights people have been seeing in the night sky? (The last one is easy: visitors from another galaxy, here to share their advanced technology with us... for a price).ALSO:- Avoiding a Hot War w/ Red-China- COVID in Brazil- Reading the YouTube Comments- Logging Onto CompuServe to Own The Conservatives- A Kinder, Gentler Greenwald- Russia-Gate Revisited- Why FISA Was Always Bullshit- 'Just the Tip' SocialismRecorded: April 30th 2020Published May 2nd 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

w/ Jonah Goldberg Editor-in-Chief @The Dispatch, Host @ The Remnant PodcastPresident Trump has an inspired idea for arresting a global pandemic. It involves ultraviolet rays, disinfectant washes -- and Welch seems convinced that it also has something to do with "butt stuff" -- which, honestly, it wouldn't be the strangest thing you've heard all day.ALSO:- Jonah on Political Homelessness- Define "Prevaricate"- Presidential Ineptitude and Slothfulness,- How Shitty Henchmen Keep America Safe- Why The CDC is So Popular- Trump Punching is Boring- The Most Dangerous Debate- On Tucker Carlson- The Best Rescue Package- Georgia: Open for Business (or something)- Funding Lockdown Protests  - The Limits of MitigationRecorded: April 23rd 2020Published April 25th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Kmele Foster, Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) and Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) discuss the cacophony of concern about blackness+ racism in the midst of a once in a century global pandemic.RELATED POSTS:"Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?" - Coleman Hugheshttps://quillette.com/2020/04/13/do-covid-19-racial-disparities-matter/"Don’t Racialize the Pandemic" - Zaid Jilanihttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-race-fight-pandemic-dont-get-bogged-down-racial-categorization/Recorded: April 14th 2020Published April 20th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

- Gender Traitors- Teddy Pendergrass- Trump’s Absolute Authority- Cutting off WHO Funding- What a Pandemic Can Teach You- China and The American Free PressRecorded: April 15th, 2020Released: April 17th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

"When America catches a cold, black America... " -- well, we should maybe talk about that.- Welch Makes a Baseball Analogy- Moynihan helps Governor Cuomo shame the traitorous scum who refuse to STAY IN DOORS- Amid growing concern about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 may be having on black folks in America -- Kmele has thoughts- When Billionaires Give Money Away (it's never enough -- and it's never good enough -- for Moynihan?)- China is Using Fake Numbers- A Briefing Full of Jim Acostas- President Trump Lies, Frequently -- Accept When He's Telling the Truth- Trump's Greatest Failure- Foreign Policy Tea LeavesRecorded: April 7th, 2020Released: April 8th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic.PLUS "The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens"- Keep Buggering OnRecorded: March 31st, 2020Released: April 2ndth, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

- The lads are losing it in quarantine- New York is "authentic" again / full of crackhead zombies- Being entrepreneurial in a time of crisis- So what's happening in COVID world- And what does Kmele think *now*?- Is this all capitalism's fault?- More studies, more confusion- The shitty media is even shittier than ever- Hating on De Blasio- Manufacturing scientific consent- It's MH370. And we're inside the plane- A wee bit of mail from a wee Scot Trot - Is there anything to talk about *but* COVID?- Kmele has a new telescope/is a huge nerd in the woodsRecorded: March 26th, 2020Released: March 27th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

The quarantine continues...the Fifth Columnists have thoughts...- Kmele is the Kurtz/Lauren Hill of Virginia- Some listener mail- We have the results! (Calm down Todd)- Updates on the COVID- Is it all going to fall apart? Probably- Are we are at war? Not really- Some more listener mail- Some audiobooks to listen to while quarantined- Some more sports to watch while no sports is happening- Kmele really needs to bring it back to COVID- An Italian friend drunk texts, loses her mind- More disaster socialism- The most important thing about COVID is what Trump calls it- Some book recommendationsReleased: March 19, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

UPDATE: The original version of this episode was uploaded out of sync. It has been replaced with a corrected version. We regret the error. But stop complaining. It's free. The bat virus apocalypse continues. The Fifth Column soldiers on, shouting ¡No pasarán!- Kmele is in the woods, Matt is in South Brooklyn, Moynihan is in hiding- All COVID, all the time!- Wait, so does he have it or not?- Kmele questions the consensus- Disaster capitalism becomes disaster socialism- Money is fake. Let's give everyone a billion dollars, ok?- Masked and bonding with the Hasids- Why Matt can't smoke weed? (Yes, it involves Central Europe and the First Gulf War)- Ken Burns gives it away- Let's rerun 70s baseball and hockey games- More on this damn virus- We totally missed the Andrew Gillum wedding party- Dude. The drugs were on the floor- Pick some books. Let's read them- And so very much more Recorded: March 16th, 2020Released: March 17th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes"DESCRIPTION: - Decadence, Low and High- The Four Horseman- “Giving Decadence Its Due”- Birth Rates, Populations, Populism- It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right- Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn- TVs Golden Age- The Case for Joe Biden- Don Jr's GOP- A New York Times Conservative See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe