Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Moderate Party's Immoderate Self Perception
John Judis and Ruy Teixiera drop by to answer the question posed in the title of their new book Where Have All the Democrats Gone? Their warning is …
2 years, 4 months ago
Fleeing North Korea
Soyeon Lee fled North Korea, was caught, was jailed, was beaten, then fled again. We will talk to her, and the documentarian Madeleine Gavin, about t…
2 years, 4 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Fentanyl Edition
A new Netflix film, Pain Hustlers, starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, is getting a lot of buzz, so we dug into the archives to unearth an intervie…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dalmatian Bumps, The Cuckoo's Nest Effect, and Heists Adjusted For Inflation
Walt Hickey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and also a real pop-culture-impersonated peruser. His new book is You Are What You Watch, How…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Principled Never Tern A Blind Eye
What do George Santo, the Stellar's Jay, Donald Trump, the Anna Hummingbird, Adam Kinzinger, and the Cooper's Hawk all have in common? Yes, they are …
2 years, 4 months ago
Geese Buffalo Sensors, Prisoners On The Lam
In Philadelphia, an after-action report on the prisoners who escaped a city jail, despite the best efforts of napping and non-fence-repairing guards.…
2 years, 4 months ago
When Intellectual Rigor Is No Longer De Rigueur
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, returns to continue our discussion about his new book, The Cancelin…
2 years, 4 months ago
Counting On Hamas For A Count
President Biden is pretty suspicious about official counts emanating from the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza. News outlets aren't squelchin…
2 years, 4 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: The Power, Wealth And How We Use Them Edition
Melissa DeRosa is out with a new book, What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis, and we had her on the show earlier thi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Israel’s Existential Threat Matrix
As the world debates Middle East peace, Israeli defense expert Kobi Michael gives us a window into how he and many of his countrymen are thinking abo…
2 years, 4 months ago