Death Panel

We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2022. Find the companion episode to this one, “How Liberals Killed Masking,”...

22 Dec 20223h 4min

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/76127094 We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasi...

20 Dec 20228min

Bea and Phil speak with legal historian Karen Tani about an under-scrutinized case on the Supreme Court's docket this term, Health and Hospital Corp v. Talevski, which could have profound effects on t...

15 Dec 20221h 46min

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75894329 We take a look back at the year's events and the major social and political developments t...

14 Dec 202217min

Beatrice and Phil speak with Gabe Winant about the birth of the contemporary care economy and its relationship to deindustrialization, the shaping of the "private welfare state" in the 20th century, a...

8 Dec 20221h 22min

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75553332 Bea talks to Amy Kapczynski about the political economy of drug development and how, from ...

6 Dec 20227min

Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about how mass incarceration has driven the spread of the pandemic, how prisons and other carceral sites have used covid as an excuse to grow more punitive, and why we ...

1 Dec 20221h 28min

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/75226518 Bea, Artie and Phil are joined by Justin Feldman to cast doubt on a recent paper claiming ...

29 Nov 20227min