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 | ||
| Haunted By “A Ghost Story” | 2017-07-14 | ||
| At Sea With James Stavridis | 2017-07-13 | ||
| Look at All the Struggling Democracies | 2017-07-12 | ||
| Ben Wittes on the Latest News Bomb | 2017-07-11 | ||
| Twitter Should Drop Trump Already | 2017-07-10 | ||
| In Defense of Ombudsmen | 2017-07-07 | ||
| Centrists Won’t Save Health Care | 2017-07-06 | ||
| Chris Christie’s Biggest Mistake | 2017-07-05 | ||
| The Incredible Eddie Izzard | 2017-07-03 | ||
| Invisibilia Questions Your Emotions | 2017-06-30 | ||
| Writing Cop Fiction in the Age of Black Lives Matter | 2017-06-29 | ||
| I Hate This, Don’t Quote Me | 2017-06-28 | ||
| Big Turmoil in Big Sky Country | 2017-06-27 | ||
| The Rise and Reign of Unruly Women | 2017-06-26 | ||
| Do Radicals Change the World? | 2017-06-23 | ||
| Scaachi Koul on Surviving the Trolls | 2017-06-22 | ||
| The Musings of Wallace Shawn | 2017-06-21 | ||
| Is Terrorism Coverage Racist? | 2017-06-21 | ||
| Lies vs. BS | 2017-06-19 | ||
| Jon Ronson on Writing the Year’s Wildest Movie | 2017-06-16 |