Have you ever heard a commonly held belief or a fast-developing worldview and asked: Is that idea right? Or just good on paper? Each week, host Jerusalem Demsas and a guest take a closer look at the facts and research that challenge the popular narratives of the day, to better understand why we believe what we believe.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Best of: Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist? | 2024-12-24 | ||
| Do Voters Reward Good Policy? | 2024-12-17 | ||
| How to Solve a Housing Crisis | 2024-12-10 | ||
| The Evidence on Policing and Crime | 2024-12-03 | ||
| Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood? | 2024-11-26 | ||
| The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race | 2024-11-19 | ||
| An Election Post-Mortem With Tim Miller | 2024-11-12 | ||
| The Truth About Immigration and Wages | 2024-11-05 | ||
| Can Corporate Greed Really Explain Inflation? | 2024-10-29 | ||
| Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats? | 2024-10-22 | ||
| The Quiet Trump-Harris Trade Agreement | 2024-10-15 | ||
| What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’? | 2024-10-08 | ||
| Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000? | 2024-10-01 | ||
| Why Does Crime Go Up When School Starts? | 2024-09-24 | ||
| How (Not) to Change Someone's Mind | 2024-09-17 | ||
| The Wandering Officer | 2024-09-10 | ||
| Who's Responsible for the Housing Crisis? | 2024-09-03 | ||
| How Slaves Used the Law | 2024-08-27 | ||
| Is Wokeness Dead? | 2024-08-20 | ||
| Running-Mate Myths with Matt Yglesias | 2024-08-13 |