Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOregon Drug Debacle
Keith Humphreys, Stanford Professor and author of Addiction: A Very Short Introduction, talks about the of failure of a local Oregon ordinance he was…
2 years ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Podcast Implosion Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike’s Thursday Spiel about the carnage at NPR and the reason for it. Then we listen back to part of Mike’s …
2 years ago
Remembering The Repressed Memory Movement
Jena Martin is a pathologist by day who has produced a six-part podcast series looking back at the recovered memory movement of the late 1980s and ea…
2 years ago
Public Radio Podcast Pounded
Another round of bloodletting in the world of podcasting and public radio. NPR listenership is down 15-20%, and the excuses the industry is relying o…
2 years, 1 month ago
Trump Is Their Barbarian
Atlantic Staff writer Tim Alberta, author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism says many Christian…
2 years, 1 month ago
Barge Bilge
U.S. leaders put Netanyahu on notice. And is it worth knowing about all the stupid Francis Scott Key Bridge conspiracy theories? Plus, CNN's Jim Sciu…
2 years, 1 month ago
Real Rolexes, Fake Story
CNN's Jim Sciutto comes by to discuss his new book, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War. Plus, the Women's NCAA tourna…
2 years, 1 month ago
BEST OF THE GIST: March Madness
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, the rise of women’s college basketball knows no (re)bounds, and yet somehow has still been overstated. We al…
2 years, 1 month ago
Can We Wait To Take The Economic Loss On Weight Loss
The Miracle Weight-Loss Drugs would radically transform the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. Hundreds of millions. So maybe the Government…
2 years, 1 month ago
Our Politicians Far More Extreme Than Our People
We're joined by Anthony Fowler Professor of political science in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago where he researches …
2 years, 1 month ago