Episode 175 w/ Ross Douthat "Apocolypse via Decadence, Coronavirus, or Porn"

The Fifth Column

Episode 175 w/ Ross Douthat "Apocolypse via Decadence, Coronavirus, or Porn"

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Episode 175 w/ Ross Douthat "Apocolypse via Decadence, Coronavirus, or Porn"

The Fifth Column

Mar 14, 2020

w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes"

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- Decadence, Low and High

- The Four Horseman

- “Giving Decadence Its Due”

- Birth Rates, Populations, Populism

- It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right

- Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn

- TVs Golden Age

- The Case for Joe Biden

- Don Jr's GOP

- A New York Times Conservative

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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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