Episode summary: In “Oh, Snapper! Mislabeled Mississippi Seafood,” Gravy producer Boyce Upholt takes listeners to Biloxi, Mississippi—a town that has long called itself the Seafood Capital of the World. But in May 2024, shocking news hit the community: Mary Mahoney’s Old French House, an iconic rest...

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Episode summary: Send us a text Adam Smith’s pin factory example from “The Wealth of Nations” demonstrates how dividing labor into specialized tasks dramatically increases productivity. Ten workers specializing in different aspects of pin-making could produce 48,000 pins daily, while individually th...

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Episode summary: Patrick Radden Keefe: From the New Yorker to the bookstore to the screen

Episode summary: The Formula

Episode summary: What a life spent inside other people’s heads reveals about free will

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Episode summary: I first smelled the freshly nixtamalized masa from Emmanuel Galvan of Bolita at the Gilman Wine Block, where the tender, vegetal umami scent carried above the crowds right into my nose. This episode, we focus on technological and labor challenges of nixtamalization in the present, s...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests explore typology, a method of biblical interpretation that aims to meaningfully link people, places, and events in the Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament, with the coming of Christ in the New Testament. Old Testament figures like Moses, Jona...

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Episode summary: An army was gathering on shortwave and two guys in Costa Rica were among the only people in the world keeping track

Episode summary: Host John Biewen reads an essay from his newsletter, Keeping ScOR. Reflections on the Trump Administration’s attempt to wrangle control of the national story and how it’s told. Will this attack on factual history succeed? Music by goodnight, Lucas. To read see the Keeping ScOR newsl...

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Episode summary: And the inevitable future of AI-enhanced parenting