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Episode 127: Christopher Beha

July 30, 2026

He edited Harper's. He almost lost his faith to cancer and the new atheists. Now he's written a book called Why I Am Not an Atheist — and he's not backing down from the hard questions.Christopher Beha joins Jim to go toe-to-toe on Darwin, the Big Bang, and where science hits a wall it can't get past. They talk truth, doubt, AI's grip on our attention, and why "love your neighbor" is easier to preach than practice.If you've ever wrestled with faith, doubt, or ...

Ep. 126: Jason Furman

July 28, 2026

Harvard economist and former Obama CEA Chair Jason Furman joins Jim to unpack the risks hiding beneath a strong economy — from a potential Strait of Hormuz oil shock, to whether AI valuations are a bubble (and if so, dot-com or housing-crash style), to why private credit could be the market's biggest blind spot. Plus: the 6%-of-GDP deficit, the "Goldilocks" pace of AI growth, and Furman's #1 worry for the economy.

Episode 125: Avik Roy on Healthcare, Debt, and the Math Washington Won’t Touch

July 09, 2026

Is healthcare the real driver of the national debt crisis? Avik Roy joins The Puck to discuss one of the most important questions in American public policy.Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, argues that the United States has built the worst of both worlds — neither a true free-market healthcare system nor a fiscally disciplined universal system. Instead, employer-sponsored insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, tax subsidies, and distorted incentives have created what...