#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

* Below the Mendoza Line* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer * Stallone’s Bergman period* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books * An especially bad Munich analogy* NATO, NATO, NATO* Purely defensive? Well…* Perhaps it made sense at the time…* The Olympic graveyard* A test for the post-war European left* Won’t somebody just *do something* * In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg* The politics of DC crime * A city of Haley Barbours* Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC * Some notes on Ken Burns This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe