Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTrump’s Long Game and Miles Taylor’s Warning
Mike revisits an old worry: Trump’s policies are built for payoffs far beyond his term—and that’s a problem for a man who won’t share credit. From ta…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Working Class Party with the Post-Graduate Jargon
McKenzie Wilson of Blue Rose Research joins to dissect Democrats’ branding failures, from alienating language to ignoring cost-of-living pain. She ex…
1 year, 2 months ago
Not Even Mad: Rikki Schlott and Isaac Saul
New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott and Tangle founder Isaac Saul join Mike to discuss policing Washington, D.C.—who's in charge, who gets blamed, …
1 year, 2 months ago
CryptoDad’s Pirate Clause: Reviving Letters of Marque
Christopher Giancarlo—former CFTC chair and known as “CryptoDad”—joins to explain why the U.S. should build a crypto reserve, just like oil or gold. …
1 year, 2 months ago
Rent-Stabilized and City-Run: Mamdani Rises as Rivals Flail
Harry Siegel joins to break down the chaotic New York mayoral race, where Zohran Mamdani looks like the presumptive next mayor but hasn’t been fully …
1 year, 2 months ago
Katja Hoyer on Germany’s AFD and the Limits of Calling Someone a Nazi
Today on The Gist, the Texas Democrats’ walk-out, a dramatic gesture that ultimately did little because they never had the leverage to win. From ther…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Spiel Saturday Show
Today on The Gist we air two spiels from earlier in the week. One about the CDC shooting in Atlanta and then one about Matt Taibbi's murder stat take…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Cheesecake Factory Model of Freedom
In The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, Sophia Rosenfeld traces how choice evolved from secret ballots and dance cards to consumer…
1 year, 2 months ago
When the Train to Hell Runs on Time
Aziz Huq, author of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, explains how liability insurers shape policing in small towns, why “rights versus rights…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rights You Can’t Use
Aziz Huq, University of Chicago law professor and author of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, lays out how federal courts have gutted the mech…
1 year, 2 months ago