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 | ||
| Unpacking the Buttigieg CIA Conspiracy | 2020-02-14 | ||
| Bloomberg’s Bad Racial Math | 2020-02-13 | ||
| What Hurt Warren | 2020-02-12 | ||
| Are Essential Oils Essentially Bunk? | 2020-02-11 | ||
| Moshe Kasher Surfs the Crowd | 2020-02-08 | ||
| Iowa Was Lost in Translation | 2020-02-07 | ||
| The Unsurprising Acquittal of Donald Trump | 2020-02-05 | ||
| The Lesson of Iowa’s Chaos | 2020-02-05 | ||
| Oregon, Lab for Democracy | 2020-02-04 | ||
| Jon Favreau’s The Wilderness | 2020-02-01 | ||
| The Deep Doo-Doo of Dershowitz | 2020-01-31 | ||
| Could Bernie Take Iowa? | 2020-01-30 | ||
| The Nuclear Power of the Presidency | 2020-01-29 | ||
| Kobe Bryant, Transcendent Athlete | 2020-01-28 | ||
| The Hits of 1983 | 2020-01-25 | ||
| The Monstrous Monotony of Mitch McConnell | 2020-01-24 | ||
| A Bunch of Dopes and Babies | 2020-01-23 | ||
| Was Killing Soleimani Worth It? | 2020-01-22 | ||
| Journalists Aren’t Activists | 2020-01-18 | ||
| Dave Eggers and the Struggle of Satire | 2020-01-17 |