Jon Fasman

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573 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Jul

Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Deal or ordeal: Trump’s bad options in Cuba · 28 May 2026 podcast

But for many, security concerns are top of mind. voice-verified

President Scheinbaum is in a bit of a bind. voice-verified

America's Justice Department has indicted ten officials linked with her party, accusing them of conspiring with the cartel to traffic drugs. voice-verified

And many parents in Mexico are upset with the government for proposing to cut the school year short for the World Cup. voice-verified

A daft plan that was mercifully abandoned earlier this month. voice-verified

But the games must go on. voice-verified

And however Mexicans feel about President Scheinbaum, her party, and politics more broadly, on June eleventh their attention will be on the field as Mexico plays South Africa in the World Cup's opening match in front of eighty seven thousand spectators who all expect to win. voice-verified

The Intelligence from The Economist · Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading · 25 May 2026 podcast

As the Economist Culture Correspondent, I'd love to tell you that I spend my summers transiting Cicero or reading Dante in the original, but that's just not true.

My first love as a reader was crime fiction, and that's where I always go back to.

Lee Child is my current favorite crime fiction author.

He has written 31 novels, most of them featuring Jack Reacher.

The conceit is that he is a military veteran and got tired of people telling him where to go and when to go there.

And so he just goes where he wants, when he wants, and he roams around America, sort of getting into scrapes.

To my mind, there are three things that Child does really well, three reasons to read him.

The first, and this is going to be nails on the chalkboard to any literary fiction snobs, is plot.

I read

Interview with him years ago in which he said the plot in a novel should function like a rental car.

It should be smooth and unmemorable, but the plots certainly are smooth.

Vehicle for Reacher himself.

And he's kind of an odd character.

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