
Good on Paper
The Atlantic - theatlantic.com
Latest episode: Tue Mar 25 2025
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.
44 total episodes
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- Mar25Politicians Think Voters Are Dumb. Are They Right?60mins
- Mar18Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein on Abundance81mins
- Mar11The Scientific Controversy That’s Tearing Families Apart51mins
- Mar4Best of: Is Wokeness Dead?45mins
- Feb25The Human-Neanderthal Love-Story Mystery53mins
- Feb18The Real Origins of Public Education64mins
- Feb11The Great Political Sorting of American Offices57mins
- Feb4Why Is One Chicago Neighborhood Twice as Deadly as Another?57mins
- Jan28Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting54mins
- Jan21Is Elon Musk Right About Big Government?54mins
- Jan14The Scientist vs. the Machine52mins
- Jan7The Political Psychology of NIMBYism56mins
- Dec31RFK Jr.'s 'Seeds of Truth'51mins
- Dec24Best of: Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?50mins
- Dec17Do Voters Reward Good Policy?54mins
- Dec10How to Solve a Housing Crisis53mins
- Dec3The Evidence on Policing and Crime49mins
- Nov26Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood?54mins
- Nov19The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race47mins
- Nov12An Election Post-Mortem With Tim Miller45mins
- Nov5The Truth About Immigration and Wages53mins
- Oct29Can Corporate Greed Really Explain Inflation?58mins
- Oct22Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?58mins
- Oct15The Quiet Trump-Harris Trade Agreement58mins
- Oct8What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’?48mins
- Oct1Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000?50mins
- Sep24Why Does Crime Go Up When School Starts?44mins
- Sep17How (Not) to Change Someone's Mind49mins
- Sep10The Wandering Officer43mins
- Sep3Who's Responsible for the Housing Crisis?62mins
- Aug27How Slaves Used the Law50mins
- Aug20Is Wokeness Dead?46mins
- Aug13Running-Mate Myths with Matt Yglesias53mins
- Aug6What Do We Really Know About the Maternal-Mortality Crisis?40mins
- Jul30Why Is Texas Beating California on Wind and Solar?53mins
- Jul23Can Religion Make You Happier?36mins
- Jul16A Remarkable School-Choice Experiment45mins
- Jul9Are We Talking About Therapy Too Much?50mins
- Jul2The Coming Labor Shortage Is Not Good News42mins
- Jun25Are Young Men Becoming More Sexist?50mins
- Jun18Who Really Protests, and Why?39mins
- Jun11The Truth About Immigration and Public Opinion41mins
- Jun4The Great Remote-Work Experiment39mins
- May14Introducing: Good on Paper1min