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The Gist

BEST OF THE GIST: Nobel Prize Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. This weekend, we listen back to an extended cut of Mike’s 2023 interview with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, who were then the recent authors of the new book Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, and who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics this past week. Then we replay Mike’s recent treatise on when journalism achieves the goals of art, but doesn't quite tell the accurate story.    Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at [email protected]  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Saturday, it's the Saturday show, as you know, we bring you one from the vaults and one from the week the

0:24.8

vaults was that choice was thrust upon us happily so because the Nobel Prize in

0:29.9

economics was given to a trio of gentlemen, all of whom have been on the gist, but Darren Asamaglu and Simon

0:37.1

Johnson were on together a couple years ago to talk about power and progress, our thousand year

0:42.1

struggle over technology and prosperity, and I will play that interview for you again.

0:47.0

We also, you will hear from me talking about Tana Hasey Coates' book The Message, specifically the chapter in the book

0:55.2

about Israel.

0:56.2

And for a time, people were saying, what's your opinion?

0:58.8

Are you going to talk about that CBS interview with Tana Hasey Coates and and Tony De Koppel and I resisted just because not that I didn't have strong opinions I just didn't have strong different opinions from what I saw being ably voiced out there such as this is the very basics of journalism and sometimes a hard question

1:16.4

will need to be asked. Sometimes an indelicate phrasing might have to be put up with to get to some truths. So I said that, but I also gave

1:25.5

myself the assignment of reading the book and I did and I talked about it on the

1:29.8

show and I talked about it in the context of art instead of journalism or journalism that has artistic aspects and I was reading a review of the book by the truly excellent Perule Segal in the New Yorker and she comes to the issue of

1:47.0

Palestine from a very different place than I do in fact if anything if you want to reduce her

1:52.3

Critique of Coates and it shouldn't be because it's a very well rendered

1:56.6

critique.

1:57.6

But if you want to reduce it to a left right axis, she is criticizing Coates from the left

2:02.4

for speaking for a people other than his own

2:05.8

and being a late a Rivist to the Palestinian question. It was so shocking to him

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