Personality Crisis
A podcast featuring John Cole of Balloon-Juice.com, New York Times Pitchbot and mistermix of heymistermix.com. The focus is on politics, and specifically the motivations and psychology of the personalities involved.
Personality Crisis
Latest Episodes
Episode 13: Jay Watts on Mexico
Jay Watts is a photojournalist and editor of the English-language Mexican news site Mexico Solidarity, which also hosts the podcast Soberanía. The site is part of the Mexico Solidary Project, which aims to promote “people-to-people understandin...
Episode 12: Gary Trauner
Gary Trauner, three-time Democratic candidate for federal office in Wyoming, joins us again to discuss current politics. Today’s topics include Janet Mills dropping out of the Maine Senate race, Gary’s take on Jon Ossoff, who he thinks gets the...
Episode 11: Dylan Ris on Hollywood
Episode 11 of Personality Crisis is a little different than our usual political fare. This one has John Cole interviewing Dylan Ris, who is a creative writer and composer living in LA. Dylan and John have a wide-ranging discussion a...
Episode 10: Mark Jacob on Journalism's Future
Mark Jacob is the former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, and former Sunday editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He’s the co-author of 11 books, mostly on history.In our second episode with Mark, he and John Cole talk about the...
Episode 9: Mark Jacob on the New York Times
Mark Jacob is the former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, and former Sunday editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He’s the co-author of 11 books, mostly on history.In this episode, the first of two with Mark, he and John Cole talk about t...
