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 | ||
| Autocrats Can’t Take a Joke | 2017-06-12 | ||
| Larry Wilmore is Black on the Air | 2017-06-09 | ||
| What We Get Wrong About Mass Incarceration, Pt. II | 2017-06-08 | ||
| What We Get Wrong About Mass Incarceration, Pt. I | 2017-06-07 | ||
| Why So Morose About Lactose? | 2017-06-06 | ||
| O Great Confessor Google | 2017-06-05 | ||
| You Can’t Say That, Mr. Senator | 2017-06-03 | ||
| 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 |