47 Episodes

  1. Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

    Published: 15/04/2025

  2. Did Busing Turn Kids Into Democrats?

    Published: 08/04/2025

  3. In Search of 100-Year-Old Paper Trails

    Published: 01/04/2025

  4. Politicians Think Voters Are Dumb. Are They Right?

    Published: 25/03/2025

  5. Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein on Abundance

    Published: 18/03/2025

  6. The Scientific Controversy That’s Tearing Families Apart

    Published: 11/03/2025

  7. Best of: Is Wokeness Dead?

    Published: 04/03/2025

  8. The Human-Neanderthal Love-Story Mystery

    Published: 25/02/2025

  9. The Real Origins of Public Education

    Published: 18/02/2025

  10. The Great Political Sorting of American Offices

    Published: 11/02/2025

  11. Why Is One Chicago Neighborhood Twice as Deadly as Another?

    Published: 04/02/2025

  12. Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting

    Published: 28/01/2025

  13. Is Elon Musk Right About Big Government?

    Published: 21/01/2025

  14. The Scientist vs. the Machine

    Published: 14/01/2025

  15. The Political Psychology of NIMBYism

    Published: 07/01/2025

  16. RFK Jr.'s 'Seeds of Truth'

    Published: 31/12/2024

  17. Best of: Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?

    Published: 24/12/2024

  18. Do Voters Reward Good Policy?

    Published: 17/12/2024

  19. How to Solve a Housing Crisis

    Published: 10/12/2024

  20. The Evidence on Policing and Crime

    Published: 03/12/2024

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Have you ever heard a commonly held belief or a fast-developing worldview and asked: Is that idea right? Or just good on paper? Each week, host Jerusalem Demsas and a guest take a closer look at the facts and research that challenge the popular narratives of the day, to better understand why we believe what we believe.

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