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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. wethefifth.substack.com
Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all.
A podcast about sports, politics, the future and technology. houseofstrauss.substack.com
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Repulsive Replacement Theory and Economic Delusions
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In the latest Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie debunk the "great replacement theory" and highlight some particularly awful responses to recent economic woes. 1:31 - The Buffalo mass shooting and "great replacement theory" 28:34- Weekly Listener Question: Matt's prompt this week to evalu…
First Things First host Nick Wright stopped by and didn’t hold back. We discuss: How Colin Cowherd’s analogy game ruined local talk radio. How Zach Lowe’s greatness led to failed imitators. Nick’s take on Redick vs. Russo. Nick’s take on Richard Deitsch vs. Skip Bayless. Why Kevin Durant underestimates Nick. Nick gets honest on his insecurities amo…
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357 - w/ Lara Bazelon “This Podcast is Violence”
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Another two-parter: the first half with our new favorite lefty Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, journalist, feminist, novelist, controversialist. After Lara leaves, probably to free someone from prison, the lads take the second half of the show to catch up on the stupid and depressing news of the week. - Baa…
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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson
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We’re unlocking this subscriber-only podcast, recorded back in January, just to give you freeloaders a taste of what lurks behind the paywall. It’s not only those amazing bonus episodes, wherein the morons from The Fifth Column yammering and stammering through the most important issues facing civilization. But occasionally one-on-one interviews wit…
In the latest Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie unpack the leaked draft opinion concerning abortion. 1:31: The great Dobbs debate 29:17: Weekly Listener Question: It seems to me that ostensibly "public health" or "public good" policies at their core often betray a deep condescension on t…
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The DHS Will Be Disinformation Dolts
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In the latest Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie discuss the formation of the "Disinformation Governance Board," as well as President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. 1:38: The "Disinformation Governance Board," brought to you by DHS 26:58: Weekly Listener Question: I have often…
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355 "Ministry of Truth, Competence Inflation"
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- Mean Babies w/ Pink Eye - Tity Boi - Dangerous Misinformation - Show Tunes - Cinco de Mayo - Live From New York, Again - Apartheid Daydream - Combating Misinformation - The Sims 2 - Anatomy of Tribal Hysteria - Everyone Starts to Say It - Its Own Reward - From Cuba to the Marshall Islands - Entangling Alliances Recorded: April 29th, 2022 Publishe…
Matt Johnson is press coordinator for Direct Action Everywhere, the organization behind the animals rights protests that are disrupting Minnesota Timberwolves playoff games. I asked Matt about the protests and about Wolves owner Glen Taylor, the factory farming tycoon whom the protests are aimed at. Matt’s is a subculture I’m not entirely familiar …
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Why Conservatives Are Wrong To Punish Disney
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In the latest Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie discuss the broad implications of the unfolding DeSantis vs. Disney saga. 1:26: DeSantis vs. Disney continues. 33:39: Weekly Listener Question: I'm wondering when it becomes ethical and even required under one's belief in liberty to begin e…
For the longer pods, I’m trying my best to find the most interesting people I can, even if their purview isn’t necessarily sports. Culture writer Rob Henderson, who’s gone from Red Bluff to the military and onto to the Ivy League, is one such person, and he’d qualify even without that idiosyncratic biography. Rob’s a great writer and one aspect of …
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354 w/ Sarah Hepola "Barack's Misinformation Warfare Unit b/w Teenage Blackout "
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Ulysses for kidz Stop complaining. It's a secret. It's all over, folks. Barack solved misinformation The Fairness Doctrine was dumb then. It's even dumber now BTW, they're *all* liars Defining misinformation (down) Sarah Hepola, author of the memoir Blackout and this great Atlantic piece Moynihan v. Hepola on drinking She started drinking at 7?? Wh…
