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Back to SearchBEST OF THE GIST: Greenland Edition
Each weekend on Best of The Gist, we revisit an archival segment from the past and replay something from the current week. This weekend, we listen ba…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Apocalypse Musical
Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the recent apocalypse musical The End, starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, joins us to discuss musicals a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Fact Check: Meta Goes Fact-Less
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that META platforms Facebook and Instagram are doing away with fact-checking. However, Kate Klonick argues they weren’t…
1 year, 9 months ago
Trudeau Virtue-Signaled Himself Out of Office
Journalist Stephen Marche, author of the NYT op-ed “Justin Trudeau Was His Own Worst Enemy,” argues that the soon-to-be-former Prime Minister’s virtu…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Brief Highs and Crushing Lows of Drug Decriminalization
Oregon, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver have all experimented with drug decriminalization over the past few years. The results? A deadly disapp…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Wages of Lawlessness and the Laws of Wages
An analysis of the most “sympathetic” January 6th rioters hardly supports their innocence. Plus, have we been measuring economic progress all wrong? …
1 year, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Jimmy Edition
Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. This weekend…
1 year, 10 months ago
Posthumous Presidential Reappraisals
Services honoring former President Jimmy Carter begin this weekend. We assess his legacy, explore which presidents have rewritten history from the gr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Brain Imaging Studies: Are They BS?
Brain imaging studies are often cited to prove a point about human behavior, but the claims surrounding them can be quite grand. Sadie Dingfelder is …
1 year, 10 months ago
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Roy Wood JR
Comedian Roy Wood Jr., host of CNN’s Have I Got News for You and former Daily Show correspondent, joins this episode of Funny You Should Mention. We …
1 year, 10 months ago