The Fifth Column Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

So many of you have written us demanding the return of Jacob Siegel that when word got to us that he was back in New York, we hunted him down and demanded that he submit to a *third* appearance on The Fifth. We discovered that Comrade Siegel, a gravelly voiced veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq and senior writer at Tablet, is hard at work on a book, an expansion of his already expansive essay “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.” So we sat back in our chairs, asked a few questions, and basically handed the mic to Jake for an extended peroration on the Disinformation Industrial Complex, Trump’s foreign policy, why we should end American aid to Israel, and whether or not his unified theory of censorship counts as a “conspiracy theory.”
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* Shogun erasure
* Revolutionary accents
* A debate on Israel and a subsequent anti-Moynihan calumny
* Alas, anti-Semitism is common in certain parts of the world
* Pointing this out seems pretty obvious
* The WAV file
* My melanated baby
* Teaching kids versus raising kids
* Indoctrinating someone else’s kids into your way of thinking is some serious cult shit
* Torturing …

* Children of the revolution
* No journalists allowed!
* The Italian Gadsden flag
* Oh no, Matt Welch…no, no, no
* In defense of …Al Sharpton?
* Dead soul singers
* The great Baby Huey
* Forgiving student debt is insane
* College is dumb but it makes economic sense…for now
* The New York Times and NPR
* Jihad rehab
* Twitter welcomes another sexless fascist


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* The Banana genocide
* Professor, professor…let’s stick to the facts
* A conspiracy documentary full of cranks and losers
* 60 journalism professors find a story they cannot countenance
* Listeners on ADHD and Adderall
* RFK in CA
* Nodding along with Lemon
* How to talk to an Auschwitz survivor
* The trickiness of memory
* Two sets of rules
* Peaceful protesters get a call fr…

A two-for-one offering from The Fifth: first, the lads discuss the ongoing student stupidities, free speech and protest, Kmele at TED, and how your views are probably pretty normal (ed. note: considering the full-court coverage of the Columbia intifada, it’s sort of surprising that no one is referencing this terrible 1970 film, written by Ad-Roc’s dad). And then, some bonus content with Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella, who joins to discuss the government war on Adderall, his own ADHD diagnosis, and why it took him two months to get his prescription filled.


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* Swedish breakdown
* Columbia breakdown
* The continued rise of American extremism
* The politics of “genocide”
* The politics of propaganda
* Chicago expectations
* A newborn in the Fifdom
* Our Batya episode
* Trusting anti-trust?
* The NPR excel spreadsheet
* Books on McCarthy
* Three best presidents?
* The Watergate conspiracy is at least fun to believe