The Gist

Russian Doping, Revisited

We dip into the archives for our interview with Bryan Fogel about his documentary, Icarus. The film just won an Academy Award.

Russian President Vladimir Putin with ice hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk outside Moscow on Jan. 31.

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Listen to Episode 947 of Slate’s The Gist:

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On The Gist, is it OK to ape a Russian accent when saying Russian names?

And we revisit an interview with filmmaker Bryan Fogel, whose documentary, Icarus, recently won an Academy Award.

In the Spiel, a short conversation with author Steven Pinker about the state of academia. Is it really doing that badly?

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