Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMuzzling Trigger Warnings
Recently in The Atlantic, Jill Filipovic wrote an article titled "I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings: Has the national obsession with trauma done rea…
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: U.S. History Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, an extra from our two-part interview with Heather Cox Richardson, which aired this past week. She read every…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Hippest Thing About Adam Sandler's Aching Hip
Max Kerman, lead singer of Arkells, talks about how to write songs in an age of law suits, and the often weird ways a song gets placed in films and …
2 years, 7 months ago
A Constitution Ripe For Authoritarian Exploitation
We're joined again by Heather Cox Richardson to continue discussing her new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Rutherford B. H…
2 years, 7 months ago
Phil-Loot-Delphia
Historian and author Heather Cox Richardson is out with a new book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Richardson is hopeful, though…
2 years, 7 months ago
It's The Corruption, Stupid
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks is a progressive who loathes the toxic left and points to corruption as the unifying explanation as to why there's so m…
2 years, 7 months ago
Island Of The Cancelled
A young physicist working on high-temperature superconductivity follows her mentor to an island established as a haven for the "cancelled and deplora…
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Labor Unions and Fake Anthrax Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with automotive labor unions preparing for a huge battle, we listen back to Mike’s 2016 interview with Steve…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trump vs Boris Johnson As Cult Leader
Rory Stewart is back to discuss his new memoir How Not To Be A Politician and his podcast The Rest Is Politics. We discuss America's oversized role …
2 years, 7 months ago
Politics Was Making Him Stupider Every Day
Rory Stewart is a former member of British Parliament, Harvard instructor, soldier, diplomat, cabinet minister, and traverser of Asia via foot. The c…
2 years, 7 months ago