Podcast Episodes

366 w/ John McWhorter and Glenn Loury "Racial Identity, Abolition and Reckonings"

w/ John McWhorter and Glenn Loury

- No Moynihan, No Welch
- Progress or Pesmissim
- Campus Culture
- Culture Warriors
- Gaslighting + Reactionaries
- DEI …

4 years, 2 months ago

365 w/ David French "People with Capacities, Roe Reconsidered, Malignant Forces"

with David French contributing writer @ The Atlantic and senior editor @ The Dispatch.

James GD Webb
Cleaning Your Room
Playing to the Crowd
The Great CR…

4 years, 2 months ago

364 "Rejecting Boris, Reeducating Macy, Ridiculous Gavin"

* Matt breaks an eardrum

* Boris breaks British politics (Ed note: Boris renounced his American citizenship in 2017. We sort of regret the error)

* Wou…

4 years, 2 months ago

363 w/ Damon Root "Guns, Abortion, The End of All Things"

“Tear it down. Start over again. We can make a brand new start.” - Blue Mafic

* A Bad Omen

* Judicial Superfluity

* Beyond Roe

* unenumerated, natural, …

4 years, 3 months ago

362 "Trump's Deranged, Bed Stuy Replacement Theory"

* You Got a Friend

* Restrictive Covenant

* #MJInnocent

* Beefin with TSA

* Blockchain Nostradamus

* A Very Bad Thing/The Worst Possible Thing

* What Barr …

4 years, 3 months ago

361 w/ Ilya Shapiro "Free Speech, Free San Francisco, Free Weigel"

* Kmele is flying

* Dude has four parents. Not one isn’t a terrorist

* The decline and fall of San Francisco, Part I 

* Fiona Dourif’s piece on how Cali…

4 years, 3 months ago

360 "Defamation, Pride, and Very Special Needs"

* Imperfect Introduction

* Queerest story ever told

* The heart-pounding conclusion of Depp v Heard 

* Birdwatching for Karens

* A firearms "clarificatio…

4 years, 4 months ago

359 - A Massacre in Texas, An Incident in the Bronx, A Helicopter to Newark

Another mass shooting, more performative outrage (note: and this was recorded right before Beto’s gross little stunt), and never any practical soluti…

4 years, 4 months ago

358 - Live at the Comedy Cellar w/ Michael Rapaport and Colin Quinn

In celebration of the Fifth’s triumphant move to Substack, the lads decided to do a live show in New York City, with the two most New York City guys …

4 years, 4 months ago

357 - w/ Lara Bazelon “This Podcast is Violence”

Another two-parter: the first half with our new favorite lefty Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, journalist, …

4 years, 4 months ago