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.
Episodes
13 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...
Episode 8: Mark Histed
Mark Histed is a neuroscientist by day, but in his personal capacity, he has a deep interest in how to re-build and sustain local media. Today’s audio-only podcast with Mark, DougJ (NYT Pitchbot) and mistermix focuses on Mark's interests ...
Episode 7: Gary Trauner
Gary Trauner ran for Congress in Wyoming twice, and for Senate once. In 2006, he lost the closest race in the nation to incumbent Barbara Cubin. Gary talks about his history as a candidate, what it takes to run as a Democrat in a re...
Episode 6: Genevieve Gunther / Messaging Climate Change
In this episode, John Cole interviews Dr. Genevieve Guenther. Dr Guenther is a former Renaissance scholar who turned to climate research and activism after having a child and becoming increasingly alarmed about the world her son could inh...
Episode 5: Steve M.
Steve M of No More Mister Nice Blog has been blogging since 2002. Steve’s posts are always smart and often prescient. On this episode of Personality Crisis, NYT Pitchbot a.k.a. ...
Personality Crisis Episode 4 - Oliver Willis
Oliver Willis is an OG blogger, and in this episode of Personality Crisis, another OG blogger, John Cole of Balloon-Juice talks with Oliver about the past, future and timidity of the Democratic Party. Oliver and John are joined by K...
Episode 3: Brooke Harrington on Denmark
In the second episode featuring Brooke Harrington, Professor of Economic Sociology at Dartmouth, John Cole and Harrington discuss her harrowing experiences with the Danish immigration authorities. She was arrested for testifying before th...