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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| The Delicate Art of Political Persuasion | 2017-06-15 | ||
| He Ate Human Flesh for Science | 2017-06-14 | ||
| Awk-ward! | 2017-06-13 | ||
| 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 |