The Gist
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Ro Khanna & Mike Pesca: The Middle
Jun 27, 202653 min
Funny You Should Mention: Graham Kay
Jun 26, 20261h 4m
Anna Varfolomeeva: "Eighty Percent Of Russian Troops Are Getting Wiped Out Before They Reach The Front Line"
Jun 25, 202634 min
Ben Rhodes: "The Thing They Do As The Next Step Is The Most Consequential Part Of The Deal"
Jun 24, 202631 min
Ben Rhodes: "If We Had To Pay With All This Blood, It Was Worth It"
Jun 23, 202642 min
Michael A. Cohen: "There Is an Inherent Bias Toward Exaggerating the Benefits of Using Military Force"
Jun 22, 202643 min
Michael Schur: "The Afterlife Score Is Mathematical and Omniscient, But It Might Be Wrong"
Jun 20, 202627 min
Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & Matt Welch
Jun 18, 202653 min
Sadie Dingfelder: "You Cannot Be Burned by Wind Alone"
Jun 17, 202630 min
Michael Schur: "It Is Funny to Watch Fans Turn Themselves Inside Out to Try to Hold on to Something That No Longer Exists"
Jun 16, 202629 min
Joe Posnanski: "Life Is Lonely, and Sports Provides a Community"
Jun 15, 202640 min
Chris Cillizza: "Most of the People I Know in Media Can Barely Pay Their Bills"
Jun 13, 202646 min
Gary Slutkin: "Violence Meets Every Scientific Definition of a Contagious Disease"
Jun 12, 202630 min
Not Even Mad: Bradley Tusk & Charles Fain Lehman
Jun 11, 202655 min
Sadie Dingfelder: "Raccoons Have Never Been a Rabies Vector in America"
Jun 10, 202634 min
Benoit Denizet-Lewis: The Case Against “I’ve Changed”
Jun 8, 202646 min
Tom Steyer’s Very Expensive Optimism
Jun 6, 202627 min
Christian Miller: Why We Say We Love Honesty, Then Reward Liars
Jun 5, 202635 min
Claude Steele Has a Better Way to Talk About Race
Jun 4, 202641 min
Ian Coss: How One Man Controlled A Quarter Of New England’s Groundfish
Jun 3, 202639 min
Simone Stolzoff: We’re Getting Worse At Not Knowing
Jun 2, 202633 min
Aaron Tang: "Re-instill This Idea That We Can Sit Around and Talk to Each Other"
Jun 1, 202641 min
Mike Pesca on The Reason Roundtable
May 30, 202625 min
Janet McNamara: Smart People Think I'm Smart, Stupid People Think I'm Dumb
May 29, 20261h 3m
Astead Herndon: Polling Has Blind Spots That Regular People Explaining the "Why" Can Fill
May 28, 202647 min
Holly Buck: A Pause on New Data Centers Isn't Really Going to Slow the Progress of AI
May 27, 202632 min
Beyond the Politics of Contempt
May 26, 202634 min
David Oppenheimer: "The LSAT Is a Wonderful Predictive Tool for Determining An Applicant's Family Wealth"
May 23, 202619 min
Alvin Roth: "A Repugnant Transaction Is a Morally Contested Transaction"
May 22, 202632 min
Not Even Mad: Isaac Saul & Jamie Kirchick
May 21, 202653 min
David Oppenheimer: "Diversity Is Not About Being Comfortable"
May 20, 202654 min
J Schuberth: "I'd Settle for Number Two"
May 19, 202635 min
David Sussillo: "I Had to Be Like a God"
May 18, 202649 min
Mike Pesca on Fake the Nation
May 16, 202624 min
Matt Sterling: Finding the Strength to Survive
May 15, 202634 min
Franklin Foer: Did the Press Miss Biden's Decline?
May 14, 202641 min
Franklin Foer: Chronicling The Purged
May 13, 202637 min
David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box
May 12, 202644 min
Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics
May 11, 202645 min
Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone
May 9, 202634 min
Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away
May 8, 202641 min
Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss
May 7, 202657 min
Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA
May 6, 202643 min
Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success
May 5, 202629 min
Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex
May 4, 202637 min
Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer
May 2, 202654 min
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
May 1, 202637 min
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
Apr 30, 202636 min
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
Apr 29, 202641 min
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
Apr 28, 202643 min