Good on Paper
A podcast by The Atlantic - Tuesdays

47 Episodes
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Can We Stop Kids From Watching Porn?
Published: 4/15/2025 -
Did Busing Turn Kids Into Democrats?
Published: 4/8/2025 -
In Search of 100-Year-Old Paper Trails
Published: 4/1/2025 -
Politicians Think Voters Are Dumb. Are They Right?
Published: 3/25/2025 -
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein on Abundance
Published: 3/18/2025 -
The Scientific Controversy That’s Tearing Families Apart
Published: 3/11/2025 -
Best of: Is Wokeness Dead?
Published: 3/4/2025 -
The Human-Neanderthal Love-Story Mystery
Published: 2/25/2025 -
The Real Origins of Public Education
Published: 2/18/2025 -
The Great Political Sorting of American Offices
Published: 2/11/2025 -
Why Is One Chicago Neighborhood Twice as Deadly as Another?
Published: 2/4/2025 -
Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting
Published: 1/28/2025 -
Is Elon Musk Right About Big Government?
Published: 1/21/2025 -
The Scientist vs. the Machine
Published: 1/14/2025 -
The Political Psychology of NIMBYism
Published: 1/7/2025 -
RFK Jr.'s 'Seeds of Truth'
Published: 12/31/2024 -
Best of: Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?
Published: 12/24/2024 -
Do Voters Reward Good Policy?
Published: 12/17/2024 -
How to Solve a Housing Crisis
Published: 12/10/2024 -
The Evidence on Policing and Crime
Published: 12/3/2024
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.