The Fifth Column

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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, co-written with Jonathan Swan, is out now.
-yes, he superglues the gold fixtures in the Oval Office
-Maggie Haberman and her very irritating competitor Jonathan Swan
-Project 2025 and Stephen Miller’s search for lawyers who would get to “yes”
-what needs to be in the paper as soon as possible… a…

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-Bret Stephens, Mexican?
-Bret’s naked grandmother and the Trotsky/Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo connection
-The family saga of Stalinists, refugees and Reagan Republicans
-Learning to love America through tap water and cops you don’t have to bribe
-Belgium, a sick little, horrible place
-America, land of late bloomers
-The socialist Sweden Bernie remembers no lon…

-The many sins of fattie John J. Cafaro
-The Moynihan Report will return
-Hand jobs and the intellectual life of West Hollywood
-Release the Welch canceled-songs playlist
-The Iran deal is dead. The war is back.
-Why did Iran blow it up? Why does a dog lick his balls?
-Air power has never toppled a regime
-The anti-globalists discover the Strait of Hormuz
-Israel’s secret Ahmadinejad project
-In partial defense of the late Lindsey Graham
-Politics is gross. Stop loving politicians.
-Fellating is best done behind closed doors
-“There is no they. There is only we. And we usually don’t know what the fuck we’re doing.”
-Midterm Madness comes to Michigan
-Haley Stevens brings a little bit of stick-it-to-’em
-Is this DSA thing real?
-Colorado nominates a man who first killed at seven (he thinks)
-Two fatal ICE shootings in two weeks
-Ann Widdecombe is murdered. Britain shrugs.
-Kmele attempts the Caitlin Clark/data center crossover. It does not land.
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Robert Wright’s new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, is out now (Bookshop | Amazon)
•“Conference” = group sex
•21 years of successfully avoiding podcast wealth
•Interviewing the godfather of AI
•A tiger and a rattlesnake
•Matt gets quizzed on LLMs
•The God Test
•The shock of vibe coding
•China and the superintelligence arms race
•Re…

The great Kat Rosenfield joins us to discuss the ongoing fallout from rape allegations against Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner published Monday by Politico.
When you’re a star, they let you mispronounce their name.
•The Fifth Column (whiskey) sells out!
•America’s birthday month
•Loathing Graham Platner before it was cool
•The least weird thing about Platner
•The Times is on it
•A working class hero is something to be
A•bout that beard
•The flaws are a feature, not a bug
•We all know a guy like this
•Christine Blasey Ford enters the chat•Michael Tracey exists
•Kmele expresses skepticism•It’s not consensual, it’s DiGiorno•On second thought, let’s not play the Fuentes clip
•Michell Goldberg’s mea culpa
•Fruit baskets
•Midterm Madness… the Graham Platner edition
•Stephen King for senate? •Missing Moynihan
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