Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFluke Happens
Brian Klaas, political scientist and author of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, talks about flawed thinking and the flaws of …
2 years, 9 months ago
Will Haley Bail-y?
Tim Alberta of The Atlantic is author of the new book The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, and he als…
2 years, 9 months ago
Donald Dockett
New York Times columnist, Dispatch legal expert, and podcaster David French joins us to discuss timelines for the various Trump legal cases, and Dav…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nikki's Not Taking NH For Granite
Horrible puns aside, New Hampshire marks the last chance for one of Donald Trump's challengers to actually make a stand. Guests Matt Robison and Paul…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Hogwarts Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, protests of the video game Hogwarts Legacy dealt a blow to the financial empire of J.K. Rowlings’ in 2023 … …
2 years, 9 months ago
Putin Loser, Times Disagrees
Our brave and heroic Congress has done the incredible ... again ... passing legislation to temporarily keep the government running until February. Gr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Trauma And Gaza
First, we consider the case of the dream boat Yemeni who is a hijacker of real boats, dubbed "Tim-Houthi Chalamet" by adoring online fans. And then, …
2 years, 9 months ago
When There's A Willis There's A Wade
Georgia DA Fani Willis wades into allegations that she hired her romantic partner to prosecute Trump. She does so from the pulpit of a storied church…
2 years, 9 months ago
Did DEI Blow The Doors Off An Airplane?
Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Center discusses the gap between economic impression and reality. Vivek Ramaswamy ends his cosplay as a Trump cov…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Chaos Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike’s 2016 interview with Tim Hartford, author of the book Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Li…
2 years, 9 months ago