Good on Paper

A podcast by The Atlantic - Tuesdays

Tuesdays

47 Episodes

  1. Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?

    Published: 4/15/2025
  2. Did Busing Turn Kids Into Democrats?

    Published: 4/8/2025
  3. In Search of 100-Year-Old Paper Trails

    Published: 4/1/2025
  4. Politicians Think Voters Are Dumb. Are They Right?

    Published: 3/25/2025
  5. Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein on Abundance

    Published: 3/18/2025
  6. The Scientific Controversy That’s Tearing Families Apart

    Published: 3/11/2025
  7. Best of: Is Wokeness Dead?

    Published: 3/4/2025
  8. The Human-Neanderthal Love-Story Mystery

    Published: 2/25/2025
  9. The Real Origins of Public Education

    Published: 2/18/2025
  10. The Great Political Sorting of American Offices

    Published: 2/11/2025
  11. Why Is One Chicago Neighborhood Twice as Deadly as Another?

    Published: 2/4/2025
  12. Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting

    Published: 1/28/2025
  13. Is Elon Musk Right About Big Government?

    Published: 1/21/2025
  14. The Scientist vs. the Machine

    Published: 1/14/2025
  15. The Political Psychology of NIMBYism

    Published: 1/7/2025
  16. RFK Jr.'s 'Seeds of Truth'

    Published: 12/31/2024
  17. Best of: Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?

    Published: 12/24/2024
  18. Do Voters Reward Good Policy?

    Published: 12/17/2024
  19. How to Solve a Housing Crisis

    Published: 12/10/2024
  20. The Evidence on Policing and Crime

    Published: 12/3/2024

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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.