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 Path of Most Resistance | 2017-06-01 | ||
| A Playwright in the Rust Belt | 2017-05-31 | ||
| Donald Trump, Body Snatcher | 2017-05-30 | ||
| The Colony and the Nation | 2017-05-27 | ||
| Ben Wittes Digs Out | 2017-05-25 | ||
| Everyone Looks Presidential on Air Force One | 2017-05-24 | ||
| Tom Ricks: "It's Shakespearean" | 2017-05-23 | ||
| Jon Glaser Is Conflicted | 2017-05-22 | ||
| Can We Really Fix College Sports? | 2017-05-19 | ||
| Roger Ailes Created This Mess | 2017-05-18 | ||
| Why Things Went South in Alabama | 2017-05-17 | ||
| Encounters With the Very, Very Famous | 2017-05-16 | ||
| Chasing the Bauble With Brooke Gladstone | 2017-05-15 | ||
| Are Bilinguals Really Smarter? | 2017-05-12 | ||
| Clint Watts, Testifier Extraordinaire | 2017-05-11 | ||
| The Man Who Wrote the Comey Memo | 2017-05-10 | ||
| Are We Smart Enough to Be a Direct Democracy? | 2017-05-09 | ||
| The Formation of Stephen Miller | 2017-05-08 | ||
| What's in the Bill? With Sarah Kliff | 2017-05-05 | ||
| Observing Obscura Day | 2017-05-04 |