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 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 | ||
| The Wasted Debate | 2020-01-16 | ||
| Forgiveness by Fiat | 2020-01-15 | ||
| The Issue With Oscar Noms | 2020-01-14 | ||
| Marianne Williamson Teleports Away | 2020-01-11 | ||
| The Final Great Jeopardy! Game | 2020-01-10 | ||
| What’s John Bolton’s Game? | 2020-01-09 |