Recently, I've started "reading" podcasts. I started when I noticed I wasn't following them properly; in the best case I'd zone out, but in the worst case I'd find I'd agreed with some claim or argument that did not stand up to scrutiny. On occasion, the speaker would say something I knew to be false, which would provoke me into checking their other claims, which would be similarly shaky. I had allowed the speakers' charisma to carry the argument, not the argument itself. Other times I'd look...