Click to read The Fifth Column (A Podcast), a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.

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.

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Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Click to read The Fifth Column (A Podcast), a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Michael Christopher Moynihan (born August 24, 1974) is an American journalist, former National Correspondent for Vice News and co-host of The Fifth Column podcast. He was previously the cultural news editor for The Daily Beast, the managing editor of Vice magazine, and a senior editor of the libertarian magazine Reason.

Feb 3, 2025 · 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.

With Michael Moynihan (Vice), Matt Welch (Reason), and Kmele Foster (Freethink) Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Picking apart the news cycle, interrogating their guests, and always imbibing responsibly.

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Mar 22, 2019 · In the first couple episodes of the podcast someone mentioned the idea of compiling a reading list of all the books mentioned. I noticed that this hadn't been done when I was listening to old episodes about 18 months ago. So I took it upon myself to start keeping track of the books mentioned.