The Gist

Uneducated Posturing

With a Secretary of Education like Betsy DeVos, is there any hope?

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Episode Notes

On the Gist, the Washington football team have more work ahead than they realize.

In the interview, Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri joins Mike to chat about her recently published book Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why. A hand-picked anthology of her some of her best essays that are mockingly sharp, and unsettlingly cheerful, it showcases the satirist’s gleefully distorted take on our political and social realities.

In the spiel, educational idiocy.

Email us at thegist@slate.com

Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.

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  • Mike Pesca hosted Slate’s daily podcast The Gist from 2014 - 2021.