The Fifth Column

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* Matt, swallowed by Los Alamos

* Jon Ronson’s new pod

* A terrible trailer, a pretentious movie

* Ringo Seal!!! Trump is “being persecuted”

* Head injuries that help

* Listen to that podcast, even if it’s terrible

* A hot plagiarist

* Substack and Nazis

* Chomsky and Jeffery

* Kmele’s new favorite football player

* And so much more!

Should we even bother with the normal bullet points? Because it’s mostly about Claudine Gay. And the media’s embarrassing reaction to Gay’s “duplicative phrasing” and “attribution issues.” And what this says about the rot in academia. And something about a Disney Plus show. And ladies who live in trees. And how Kmele’s ice has to be colder than Welch’s ice. And a generation of dumb intellectuals. Enjoy.

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* The last one of the year

* The French public sector

* Macron and the menorah

* Exploding appliances

* Nick & Kanye

* Nikki’s slavery gaffe

* But does she have a shot?

* Billionaires on the “billionaire class”

* Don’t forget about RFK

* Who blew up the pipeline?

* Why we believe what we believe

* Vivek’s “inside job”

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* I resign!

* (“That was a great apartment….”)

* I resign!

* (“That was the worst job…...

* Can Kmele sing?

* A guy is surrounded by some racists

* In praise of…Alec Baldwin?

* Protesters are like racists

* Trump and Colorado

* Smart people who have come to some strange conclusions on this…

* He’s screwing with you. You know that right?

* They think you don’t understand policy

* Not a lot of loyalty…...

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* It wasn’t a debate

* Moynihan loves islands. Who doesn’t?

* University stuff

* “Late capitalism”

* Walt Disney wasn’t a Nazi

* Backfilling history

* Massaging numbers

* On the Qataris….

* And a bunch of listeners chime in!

* Ron Karenga

* Handel’s Messiah and stock portfolio

* Musicology is dumb, says Matt

* Hip-hop is appropriation and it’s great

* Method Man thinks the Stones and Bootsy are the same

* The Fall of Minneapolis

* The Fifth’s verdict

* Some good things, some bad things

* Revisiting the Chauvin trial

* An 800,000 word reflection from James Bennet

* Fanaticism and forgivenness

* How is this plagiarist surviving?

* How...

* The editorial board of the Washington Post

* What what wrong with the cease fire

* On culpability

* Can there *be* a negotiated settlement?

* Is it really “the occupation”?

* That wild 2022 video from Jenin that Moynihan mentioned

* You’re going to be defrocked

* Being handcuffed by “the Nahkba”

* The insane rape conspiracy theories—and why they exist

* Are all these people pro-Hamas?

* Mrs...

* We ain’t gonna play Sun City

* RIP Shane

* George Santos: genius

* Gavin v...

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* A shooting in the hood

* The Oakland Politburo speaks. The world is appalled.

* The free speech issue vs. the university infection

* Knowing nothing but propaganda

* Gaza Facebook is pretty wild

* Sir Humphrey says: “This is the most insane answer ever”

* What Epstein got right...