Think First with Jim Detjen
Questions that deserve more than immediate answers.
Public inquiry for an age of distortion. Think First examines the claims, stories, assumptions, and systems that shape judgment before certainty takes hold.
- Current series
- The Foundations
- Format
- Essays and investigations
- Host
- Jim Detjen
Think First Season Two
The Foundations
The ideas beneath Season Two.
Selected Season One episodes that establish the concepts, patterns, and questions informing the more deliberate work ahead.
About the inquiry
Public inquiry for an age of distortion.
Hosted by Jim Detjen, Think First examines the ideas, assumptions, evidence, events, and stories that shape how we perceive and understand the world. It pays particular attention to gaslighting, poetic truth, institutional process, and the widening gap between what sounds persuasive and what can be verified.
Each episode begins with curiosity, separates fact from interpretation, tests claims against evidence and competing explanations, and leaves conclusions open to revision as stronger evidence and better understanding emerge.
Selected from the archive
Earlier conversations worth returning to.
A small selection from the wider archive: questions of mortality, institutional drift, identity, and the stories that shape public judgment.
Think First