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

The Fifth Column

Jun 08, 2022

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 California fails the mentally ill
A sexy retweet
Ilya Shapiro quits Georgetown. He stops by to tell us why
Ilya apologized. Should he have?
He mentioned it, we’ll link to it: the paperback edition of Supreme Disorder
Shapiro: Cato abandoned me
Dave Weigel gets suspended because of his colleague and “close friend,” Sammy “the Bull” Sonmez,” rats him out
Another editors note re: the TikTok lady
A St. Louis Cardinal tweeted bad words when he was 14
Everything is dumb
CNN retools, but all the tools still work there
If you ask the question “should I have kids on account of climate change,” you probably shouldn’t have kids
A primetime January 6th hearing, produced by Busby Berkeley
Breaking: Chesa the Chavista needs a new job
The decline and fall of San Francisco, Part II

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The Fifth Column

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.

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