Episode 178: "The Great American Shut In, Authoritarianism and Liberty Fetishism"

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Episode 178: "The Great American Shut In, Authoritarianism and Liberty Fetishism"

The Fifth Column

Apr 02, 2020

With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic.

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Recorded: March 31st, 2020

Released: April 2ndth, 2020

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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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