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Back to SearchJ. K. Rowling And The Prisoner Of Twitter Bans
Megan Phelps-Roper, the host of the podcast The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling, returns to talk about the backlash from the trans community to the po…
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J. K. Rowling And The Chamber Of Insults
Megan Phelps-Roper, the host of the podcast The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling, created a podcast weaving her own experience into the task of explori…
2 years, 8 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Camaro Joe Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Joe Biden announced his intention to run for the Presidency again this past week, so we revisit Mike’s analy…
2 years, 8 months ago
On Masks, 300,000 Bangladeshis Can't Be Wrong
Jason Abaluck, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management conducted what was the largest mass masking study to date. He and Mike discuss…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Jury Is Out On The Proud Boys
Roger Parloff, Senior Editor at Lawfare, has been covering the trial of five Proud Boys since it started four months ago. The case is in the jury's h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Some Words Get You Fired
Jena Friedman is a comedian, writer, and "correspondent" who has worked with Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Borat (not an actual person), and her new, f…
2 years, 8 months ago
Monetizing The Disinfection Of Disinformation
Steven Brill founder of NewsGuard talks about his for-profit companies business model of issuing nutrition labels for news. Plus, The Covid Crisis Gr…
2 years, 8 months ago
Not Defeating, But Disqualifying Donald
Indiana University law professor Gerard Magliocca says just as Confederate officers were Constitutionally barred from seeking office, so too should D…
2 years, 8 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Barn Fire Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we rewind to January 2017 to revisit Mike’s interview with Ralph Nader, who had just published his second wo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Generation Irritation: A Conversation
Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, discusses her new book Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Mil…
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