The Fifth Column

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 elusive
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Look 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.
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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 immigrants
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-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…

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Stephanie 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…