Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLuxuriating In Luxury Beliefs
Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, grew up in foster care among the people that the elites of Yal…
2 years ago
A Dearth Of Sinemaphiles
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema announces her intention to become Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Also on the show, The New York Times' union s…
2 years ago
Border Porous? Blame Mayorkas
Jonathan Blitzer author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, profiled DHS Secretary Aleja…
2 years ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we tackle the important topic of poor-quality, quick-heating food innovations. From the archive, we listen b…
2 years ago
Get Used To It
Cass Sunstein joins us to talk about how, without knowing it, we habituate to our circumstances ... regardless of the circumstances. This is both a g…
2 years ago
Bloody American History, Long Before the Founders
We're joined by James Swanson author of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America. Plus…
2 years ago
Surge Burgers
Wendy's experiments with dynamic pricing, but generally lethargic french fries. Plus, it was a week from hell for Richard Lewis and Mitch McConnell. …
2 years ago
Saddam's Secret Recordings
Steve Coll, author of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq, worked to declassify the persona…
2 years ago
When An Insurmountable Obstacle Meets A Hubristic Work Force
Joe Biden's foreign policy team has mixed success, or some "non-failures," depending on if you regard the Afghanistan withdrawal plan as a regrettabl…
2 years ago
American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad
Wondery’s podcast American History Tellers takes you to the events, times and people that shaped America and Americans — our values, our struggles an…
2 years ago