Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLive From Israel: A Nation Held Hostage
On Mike’s second day in Israel, he attends the meeting of people trying to bring their family members kidnapped by Hamas home from captivity. Also on…
2 years, 5 months ago
De-Polarized By An Existential Threat
Gigi Levy-Weiss is a former Apache helicopter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, a tech entrepreneur, and a member of Brothers In Arms, reservists who r…
2 years, 5 months ago
Fast, Efficacious, And Safe: A Tall Order
Gus Perna was a four-star general a month out from retirement from the Army, when the Trump Administration tapped him to help lead the logistics of O…
2 years, 5 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Competing Narratives Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, first we rewind to the summer of 2014, when Israel and Palestine were again locked in armed conflict. To und…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Science Of History
History is the product of remembering our past, so it involves the mind, though we have underused neuroscience in understanding how we know what we t…
2 years, 5 months ago
We Have FedEx'd Our Pandas Back To China
China recalls its pandas, and Americans bid them a tearful adieu. If only we could form such a tight bond with the Uyghurs. We are also joined by Dr.…
2 years, 5 months ago
Beaten To Protect Democracy
Aquilino Gonell was a Capitol Hill Police Officer who, on January 6th, was beset upon by an angry mob then all but abandoned by officialdom in the af…
2 years, 5 months ago
A 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago