Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPaul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"
Paul D. Miller joins the show to argue that international law is a set of norms, not a moral court. A former CIA analyst and Army intelligence office…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams
Mike contemplates the hierarchy of American attention, contrasting the 50 million eyes on the AFC Championship game with the obscurity of the men lea…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation
ICE's aggressive actions in Minnesota were meant to project force and restore order, but instead produced chaos, public distrust, and a political bac…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people not at all."
Thomas Goetz joins the show to discuss his new podcast Drug Story, starting with the chain from FDR's death to cholesterol science, statins, and the …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"
CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams joins to talk about his new book Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"
First, Mike argues that Stephen Miller's promise of "federal immunity" to ICE agents is just as reckless as Donald Trump telling Iranian protesters t…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"
Today on The Gist, Mike explains why he won't be watching Netflix's Skyscraper Live, arguing that Alex Honnold's latest stunt is an "attractive nuisa…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful
Critic and essayist Jason Guriel joins to talk about Fan Mail and how cultural criticism curdled once gatekeepers vanished and celebration replaced j…
5 months ago
Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos
Chuck Klosterman returns with his one-word book, Football, using the Raiders' brand mystique—and the Pac-12 reduced to two lonely teams—as proof that…
5 months ago
Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture
Author Chuck Klosterman joins the show to discuss his new book, Football, and how football's strange mechanics, from hidden labor to stop-start pacin…
5 months ago