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Back to SearchMore Than 1% Chance Of Nukes
George Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute, he was formerly the director of the CIA’s Russia analysis unit, and he worked as …
2 years, 11 months ago
Taking Flack For All The Yakety Yak
Admitted excessive-talker Dan Lyons researches a cure for his propensity for prolixity—STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noi…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Unremarkable Antics Of Congressman DeSantis
Then-Congressman Ron DeSantis did a moderate Republican a favor in 2013, when he “lit up” the head of the Parks Department. But it was the kind of li…
2 years, 11 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: 7 Degrees Of Natasha Lyonne
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, to compliment our Friday show, which featured an interview with sisters Nora and Lilla Zuckerman—show runner…
3 years ago
A Taste Of Poker Face
Lilla and Nora Zuckerman drop in to discuss how unusual it is to make a NON-serialized streaming show like Poker Face. We discuss if Natasha Lyonne’s…
3 years ago
Tuning into the Anti-Anti Obesity Frequency
Insulin is getting cheaper, weight-loss drugs really work, and school-lunch programs are bringing childhood obesity down. This all should be universa…
3 years ago
The Effective Altruism Crash
The philosophy of Effective Altrusim took a hit due to its close association with Samuel Bankman-Fried. New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus pr…
3 years ago
Second Amendment Creates Second-Class Citizens
Carol Anderson, Professor of Black History at Emory University, is here to discuss The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Plus, Meet…
3 years ago
Mass Mask Mistakes, Lab Leak Likelihood
A big new study about the ineffectiveness of mask mandates is being denounced and rejected as disinformation by some who’ve branded themselves as the…
3 years ago
BEST OF THE GIST: President Carter Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we’re listening back to Mike’s 2018 interview with Jimmy Carter’s once Chief Domestic Policy Advisor, Stuart…
3 years ago