-Simplify, simplify, simplify…-Do people like Jim as a boss?-The two things to screen for in prospective employees-The humility of Mike Allen-AI and the newsroom-The way you consume news is about to completely change-Are we at the Napster stage of AI?-The demand for local news didn’t die-DEI without the corporate activism-Axios refuses to take a stand-Moynihan’s Vice postmortem-Jim used to be a hothead. Mostly.-AI might kill us. Why it matters-Kmele vs. the AI doomers-Hugging Face and the runaway AI problem-Stuxnet was the dumb version-Midterm Madness goes off-script-Who should actually be Person of the Year?-Too much Trump porn at the New York Times?-Jim simplifies Trump’s three biggest precedent breaks-Why Trump does it anywayRead Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz(Bookshop | Amazon)Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn 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

-RIP Andrew Wimsatt, a true friend of the show and beloved member of the Fifth Column community-And in lighter news, it’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11-Trump’s 9/11 story-Why we’re called The Fifth Column-When Matt Welch welcomed us to war-Moynihan moved to New York on September 10, 2001-How much of your memory of the day is actually real?-Mary Beard and other “the US had it coming” takes-Little Eichmanns and the root-causes Olympics-Did we win the War on Terror?-You get $5,000! And you get $5,000!-Midterm Madness and the two Dan Sullivans-Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP speedrun to zeroPrefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comAs well as Epstein, and the conspiracy theories that refuse to die-the most famous person from Troy, NY?-shut your whore mouth, Producer Jason-we actually do have a serious guest today-a radical re-purposing of the Justice Department-James Comey and the seashells-lowercase justice-Tom Homan and the $50,000 CAVA bag-Abscam and the lost art of government …

Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist-The tractor beam of sexuality-James B. Meigs is here-Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the answers-It’s 9/11 season. Call in the OG debunker-Jet fuel didn’t have to melt steel-Death threats for… Popular Mechanics-Tucker finds Israel in the JFK files-Revisiting Loose Change, 20 years later-Conspiracy theories thrive in the ruins of journalism-Data centers or, hear us out, server farms-The mailbag interrogates Mr. Science Man-Hugging Face and the AI agents chatting amongst themselves-Midterm Madness goes to Texas-Talarico vs. Paxton, somehow a toss-up-Flock cameras solve crimes. They also know where you’ve been-Nature, Jason Arday, and the death of fact-checking-UFOs are real. The aliens remain elusivePrefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer/listener supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comLook who decided to come back for this episode! (for the visually impaired, it’s the one and only Kmele Foster)-A Caribbean anti-colonial fantasy-A gay Lady Chatterley’s Lover… and hockey-Oh, Milo-Because it’s funny. It’s a joke-Milo, the Tates, and the “it was all a bit” defense-ICE, deportations, and discovering empathy the hard way-He gave as good as…

Holy shit, The Moynihan Report has RETURNED.Watch the episode, subscribe on YouTube, and sign up for Moynihan’s Substack while you’re at it.Now, back to the Fifth: -why you have to watch this podcast-Sanna Marin…for the policy-Finding Kmele Foster-Welch returns from Montreal to report that the French lost-life in the time of Trade War-NPR finally solves reparations-tariffs, hockey sticks, and remedial economics-JD Vance is still not funny-Polymarket bets on Canada-Tucker discovers Christian Russia-Clip Roulette returns-Tim Curry, Richard E. Grant, Producer Jason’s inexplicable defense of Hudson Hawk-Bret Weinstein solves the Charlie Kirk assassination-Ana Kasparian keeps making new friends-Mamdani, Muhammad and the death of secularism-a bit more Clip-O-Rama-Tuck and the Short King discover 107 million illegal immigrantsPrefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comHow does Semafor make money and what is the best magazine in the world? Well…why don’t you smash that subscribe button and/or whip out that credit card if you want the real insider information from media’s best?-Karen Attiah and the Charlie Kirk quote that wasn’t real-Firing people for tweets + the last good account on Twitter-Why is Semafor worth so mu…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.comStephanie Slade’s new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, is available for pre-order now!-J.D. Vance seizes the means of production-Let’s define “conservative” in case you forgot-So what the hell is Fusionism?-From free markets to owning the libs-Cultural resentment > economic anxiety-Is there a reset after Trump?-Whe…

-Greetings…oh, fuck-Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss-Clip Roulette-Tucker and the Demon Bomb-Jason Arday, martyr?-The Jonah Lehrer comparison-The Samantha Power mic disaster-Fuck you Joaquin-John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen and the Russian apologists-Ukraine didn’t go away-Trump, Kim Jong-un and the South Korea war games-Midterm Madness / Polymarket, wha happen?-Median Strategies and the fake poll-Adam Bonica, Marc Elias and scamming the elderly-Is Cuba a dictatorship? Apparently a difficult question-The Padilla Affair / Slobo Googling-Theft as a “biological need”-Chocolate City-Stay tuned for más Moynihan ReportPrefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer/listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Follow The Fifth ColumnYouTube: @wethefifthInstagram: @we.the.fifthX: @wethefifthTikTok: @wethefifthFacebook: @thefifthcolumn 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