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Economics Professor Jennifer Doleac is the Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel and host of the Probable Causation podcast. She joins Mik…
2 years, 9 months ago
All Hail
King James is a new play about male bonding, race, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Mike talks to playwright Rajiv Joseph about making art about spor…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Chokehold On Reason
With criminal charges against the former Marine who choked a homeless man to death on the NYC subway, we're being forced to choose between narratives…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Michael Jackson Edition
This week on the Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s Monday Spiel, in which he elaborates on all the recent news items he’s chosen not to disc…
2 years, 9 months ago
Michael Jackson’s Confusing Legacy
Despite numerous allegations of child abuse in the years before his death, Michael Jackson’s songs can still get you tapping your foot. It can feel c…
2 years, 9 months ago
The First Actually Readable AI Novella
Stephen Marche is the author of Death Of An Author along with an entity known as "Aidan Marchine," which is a pseudonym for a suite of AI services. …
2 years, 9 months ago
No Free Parking
Henry Grabar is the author of the newly published Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. It does explain it, a lot more than you'd think. P…
2 years, 9 months ago
Twitter Thwarts Special Military Operations Against Russia
Benjamin Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare and writer of the Substack Dog Shirt Daily, has been projecting Ukrainian messages onto the Russian Emba…
2 years, 9 months ago
Smart Guns Are Here
Guns that recognize specific users biometrics are almost ready to be shipped, as the firm Biofire is taking orders for their reliable, and forceful, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter
When Elon Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a white sink along with the message “let that sink in!” it marked the end of…
2 years, 10 months ago