Death Panel

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Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman join us to discuss their recent article on the pandemic advocacy of Emily Oster and the many pundits who were absolutely incensed by it.

Read their article, "Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education" here: https://proteanmag.com/2022/03/22/motivated-reasoning-emily-osters-covid-narratives-and-the-attack-on-public-education/

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We discuss the appointment of Ashish Jha to lead the Biden administration's coronavirus response and replace Jeff Zients, what we know about how Jha views the pandemic, and what we can learn from an interview he did in January with Emily Oster for the New York Times.

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Jacob Bacharach joins us to discuss New York Times newsletter writer David Leonhardt's outsized influence as a covid minimizer, the broader political philosophy of his newsletter "The Morning," and why "liberals" are mad at David Leonhardt.

Read Jacob's piece for The New Republic, "Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy?" here: https://newrepublic.com/article/165729/david-leonhardt-happy-review-new-york-times-morning-newsletter

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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We answer the question on the tip of everyone's tongue: how, exactly, does the pandemic end?

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Bea speaks with Alexander Zaitchik about the fraught history of medical patents, and how applying intellectual property laws to drugs went from outright taboo to established order.

Alexander Zaitchik is an independent journalist and author of Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Asprin to COVID-19. You can order his book here: https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/owning-the-sun/

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Bea and Abby speak with Jim Downs about the roots of epidemiology as part of the colonial and imperial project, and his book Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine.

Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History. You can find Jim's book here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674971721

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Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman join us for a close look at the Biden administration's new pandemic roadmap document, and what it suggests about what the government imagines for their long-promised "next phase" of the pandemic.

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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We discuss the details of the CDC's new redefinition of its covid risk guidelines, and why they don't provide any good justification to drop masking.

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We speak with Jules Gill-Peterson about Texas Governor Greg Abbott's declaration last week that affirming the identities of trans children is child abuse and her recent piece "We, the Abuser State."

Jules Gill-Peterson is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, General Co-Editor at Transgender Studies Quarterly, and the author of Histories of the Transgender Child.

Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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Beatrice speaks with Dr. Steven Thrasher about his recent piece for the Guardian "The Biden administration has failed its Covid test," what we can and can't learn about covid mitigation from the HIV/AIDS crisis, and his forthcoming book "The Viral Underclass."

You can pre-order Dr. Thrasher's book here: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250796639

Also! Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book, Health Communism, out October 18th from Verso Books. Pre-order Health Communism here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ

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