RIP Martin Amis (and Andy Rourke and Jeremy Clarke)
A reading list: Money. London Fields. Zone of Interest. (Note: these all appear to be sold out on Amazon)
On Orwell and D.J. Taylor’s new biography
The Citibike “Karen” and her “white tears”
Online vigilantism
Salman Rushdie’s return
Why’s there no challenge to Biden from The Squad?
The…
The Fifth Column
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.
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.Listen on
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