•Don Does Davos•I Would Do Anything for Greenland (But I Won’t Do That)•Even MAGA Thought the Norway Text Was Fake News•The Danes’ Historical Resistance to Fascism•A Lament for the Belgian Congo•Cutting a Greenland Cake, and the Epidemic of Stupidity•Who the Fuck Is “We”?•Congress Could Do Something That Isn’t Impeachment•Shame Doesn’t Work•Past the Point of Passivity•Punching a Transtifa Baby•Macron and Those Beautiful Sunglasses•Carney Invokes Václav Havel: Rupture, Not Transition•Middle Powers, Beta Powers•Soleimani in Iceland•China Is Asshole•The Man Is Fucking Old and Loves His Prizes•Breaking: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat•Letter Bag: Minneapolis•Get Out of the Fucking Churches•The Abbott & Costello Theory of Government

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Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now! (See also The Nineties, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

-The music-doc cinematic universe, featuring Billy Joel and Japanese Jimmy Page

-Moynihan missed the Morrissey cover-band boat

-How to actually say Klosterman

-From pop culture to America’s most popular TV show

-It had to be football: the one exception …

Two hundred and fifty years ago this very day, a gallant-strolling cat named George Washington convened in Cambridge about as high a level Patriot meeting as you could muster: John Adams, two major generals, five brigadier generals, and arguably the most connected man among the Boston rebels, Joseph Warren. There, the commander in chief persuaded his Wa…

-Good Movies We’ve Never Seen

-Raw Dog Minerals

-Moynihan Responds to a Cunty Troll

-The Reckoning We Didn’t Have

-Renee Goode, a Week Removed

-These People Have No Constitutional Knowledge

-The MST3K Theatre of ICE Videos

-The Sanctuary City Devaluation

-Iranian Violence Spectacle and thoroughly verifying the dead

-Weaponized DOJ: Now Featuring Powell and a Reporter Raid

-The Walter Cronkite of This Generation

-Low-Bar Journalism

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-Who Remembers the Armenians? (The Fresno ones)

-The One Good Decision Gavin Newsom has made

-Who Remembers Amy Cooper? (The Central Park one)

-When Facts Become Partisan Coded

-Journalism vs. Activism

-Matt Welch Is Buffy St. Marie

-Broken LA Dreams

-The Actual Way to Pronounce Cenk Uygur

-ICE’s Shock and Awe Theater is no longer an act

-The Pendulum on Immigra…

We’re joined by Josh Barro, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times and host of the Very Serious and Central Air Substack

-Feldstein, Leibowitz, Berkowitz, and White Nationalist Moynihan

-The Nancy Pelosi Riot, 5 years later

-An ICE shooting in Minneapolis

-Morally disgusting and electorally advantageous

-Marco Rubio’s Spine Transplant

-Memory-Holing Anarchy

-The Warmth of Collectivism

-Rent Control Suicide

-Affordability In Davos

-The NY John Lindsay Pretty Boy Republican Problem

-Greenland Extortion

-Maduro Snatch and Grab

-Black Elliott Abrams

-Are straight people okay?

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•Belated Christmas gifts from Matt

•Who’s got the biggest war boner?

•Lysander Spooner, still bringing people together after all these years

•Kevin’s had four kids in 19 months. You do the math.

•How to tell the kids apart? Tattoo ‘em!

•Build, Baby, Build

•Romney the virile tribal chieftain

•Trump’s faux presidential run

•Venezuela and the subtle differences be…

One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome back to the Fifth Column One Hitter!

This time Matt and Moyn are joined by Human Rights Foundation founder—and Venezuelan dissident, despite the Norwegian name—Thor Halvorss…