A wry and pointed take on politics, media and society from Bob Garfield.
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Strange Beast
What do you think about?
Death? Money? Work? Sports? Wrinkles? Elizabeth Holmes? One piece of famous research found that young adults, on average, have sexual thoughts 19 times a day.
Whatever. You know what I’ve been thinking about 19 ti...
Moral Bankruptcy
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood at his desk, almost certainly not reading the Daytona News-Journal.
How often have we heard politicians and law enforcement smear the media for publishing information they would prefer to remain unpubli...
Rusty Hull in the Danube
Demonstrators march along Gran Via in Madrid during a protest calling for action over Spain’s housing crisis on October 3, 2026.
Europe — that place of antiquity, cuisine, human rights and eccentric eyeglass frames — is coming apart at the...
Attack of the Meat Missile
Owner Frank Olivieri Jr. is flanked by employees while making a cheesesteak inside Pat’s King of Steaks.
I’m originally from Philadelphia. This has a number of ramifications.
Big fan of the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers and Sixers. Frequent vi...
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Bob hosts Bully Pulpit after 12 years with NPR and 20 co-hosting On the Media. He’s hosted Audible’s The Genius Dialogues and Slate’s Lexicon Valley. Also: TV analyst for three networks, columnist for three major newspapers and author of 6 books.
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