Go Doubt Yourself: Critical Thinking in Politics

Welcome back to Go Doubt Yourself - the series about critical thinking in politics.Case 003 opens in Memphis, where the federal crime operation Trump launched in September 2025 has just turned a year old, and where its arrest totals have become a talking point a month before the 3 November election. Before anyone takes that scoreboard at face value, the episode asks an older question: why have most Americans, in most years since the early 1990s, told pollsters crime is getting worse, through decades

Welcome back to Go Doubt Yourself - the series about Critical Thinking in Politics.Case 002 opens on a close Democratic primary in New York City in 1998. Four candidates wanted the House seat Chuck Schumer was giving up, and the city rotates the order of candidates from district to district. Nobody set it up as an experiment, but that’s what it became: the same front-runners, on otherwise identical ballots, with only their position changing.The result is uncomfortable for anyone who believes votes

Welcome to my new podcast series: Go Doubt Yourself.Go Doubt Yourself is a short video series about critical thinking in politics. Same detective, different case. The Daily Grift follows the money; this one follows the reasoning, including mine. Each episode takes one habit of mind, shows it on something real that turned up in a feed, and hands you a check you can run yourself in under a minute. The episodes are a few minutes long and made to be watched on a phone - or you can subscribe to the

A new series from the maker of The Daily Grift, about critical thinking in politics. Each episode takes one habit of mind and tests it on something real from your feed. Episode 00 sets the table with two examples: a claim that ran in Reuters, the BBC and The Guardian after the June 2025 strikes on Iran, all three resting on a single speech, and a White House steel chart from January 2026 whose vertical axis began at 80 rather than 0, so a small rise read as a giant one.Chapters0:00 Episode 000:05