For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any idea.
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Anti-War Candidate Was Invented in 1968 | 2017-11-22 | ||
| What's Next for Zimbabwe? | 2017-11-21 | ||
| At Home With Gilbert Gottfried | 2017-11-17 | ||
| The Nazi-Busting Woman Erased by History | 2017-11-17 | ||
| People Power Beats the Courts | 2017-11-16 | ||
| Putting the Con in Economics | 2017-11-15 | ||
| Prisons of Profit | 2017-11-14 | ||
| The Family Man | 2017-11-11 | ||
| Why Bush 41 Was the Anti-Trump | 2017-11-09 | ||
| About Last Night | 2017-11-09 | ||
| The Paradox of Black Patriotism | 2017-11-08 | ||
| Lynn Novick on Making The Vietnam War | 2017-11-07 | ||
| Free to Be You and #MeToo | 2017-11-04 | ||
| Get Inside the Brain of Michael Rapaport | 2017-11-02 | ||
| Talk Like a Pirate (Party) Day | 2017-11-02 | ||
| Putting Dr. Seuss on the Couch | 2017-11-01 | ||
| Scared to Death? | 2017-10-30 | ||
| Sen. Cory Booker Has a Message for Pot Smokers | 2017-10-27 | ||
| Fellas We Frolicked With | 2017-10-26 | ||
| Jacob Weisberg on the Steele Dossier | 2017-10-25 |