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Death Panel
Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week. w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Episodes
Death PanelDavid Leonhardt and the Tolerable Plague w/ Abby Cartus (06/16/22)
Abby Cartus joins us to discuss David Leonhardt's "Covid and Race," in which he made the bold (and inaccurate) claim in the New York Times that "covid’s racial…
Death PanelTeaser - Monkeypox w/ Gregg Gonsalves (06/13/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/67732744 Beatrice speaks with Gregg Gonsalves about the…
Death PanelOutdoor Transmission w/ Dr. Theresa Chapple (06/09/22)
We speak with epidemiologist Dr. Theresa Chapple about how seemingly everyone became convinced that you can't catch covid outdoors, common misconceptions about…
Death PanelTeaser - Everybody Loves Mask Mandates (06/06/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/67438083 We discuss how mask mandates rapidly went from an…
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Forced Alternatives w/ Tracy Rosenthal (Unlocked)
Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the policy frameworks that create and police houselessness and their recent piece in the New Republic, "Inside LA’s…
Death PanelTeaser - Forced Alternatives w/ Tracy Rosenthal (05/30/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/67101110 Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the…
Death PanelSocial Murder w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be…
Death PanelTeaser - Herd Immunity (05/23/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66802133 We discuss how the concept of herd immunity has…
Death PanelAn Invisible Wave (05/19/22)
We discuss the one thing everyone can seemingly agree on: the US is in a new wave, and no one knows quite how big it really is. Then we revisit the CDC's…
Death PanelTeaser - Title 42 w/ Silky Shah (05/16/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66509165 We speak with Silky Shah about the Trump-era…
Death PanelAn Incalculable Loss (05/12/22)
We discuss the Biden administration's increasingly ambivalent attitude toward the pandemic as the US reaches one million deaths, and revisit the CDC's data on…
Death PanelTeaser - Post-Roe w/ Melissa Gira Grant (05/09/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/66210099 We speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the Supreme…
Death PanelRoe Decayed w/ Abby Cartus (Unlocked)
In light of the draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn abortion rights in the US, this week we're unlocking our deep dive on the oral arguments…
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Teaser - Social Murder w/ Nate Holdren (05/02/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65905776 We speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels'…
Death PanelThinking Like An Economist w/ Elizabeth Popp Berman (04/28/22)
Elizabeth Popp Berman joins us to discuss how what she calls the "economic style of reasoning" came to dominate US political debates in the 20th century, and…
Death PanelTeaser - Breakthroughs (04/25/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65598734 We discuss a troubling new report that, according…
Death Panel"We Have the Tools" (04/20/22)
We discuss the abrupt end of the transportation mask mandate, what people really mean when they assert that "We Have the Tools," and Benjamin Mazer's awful new…
Death PanelTeaser - A Death Panel History of 504, Part Two (04/18/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65302819 Part Two of our story of Section 504 continues…
Death PanelA Death Panel History of 504, Part One (04/14/22)
We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the U.S., and how it very nearly didn't happen because of…
Death PanelTeaser - A Farewell to Zients (04/11/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/65017716 We discuss Jeff Zients' resignation party, the…
Death PanelWhat Happened In Sweden w/ David Steadson (04/07/22)
Many point to Sweden as evidence that lockdowns and school closures were unnecessary and harmful. But what actually happened in Sweden? David Steadson joins us…
Death PanelTeaser - Medicare for All Now (04/04/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/64722394 With the future of pandemic-era healthcare…
Death PanelTexas w/ Jules Gill-Peterson (Unlocked)
This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted February 28th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod We…
Death PanelTeaser - Tradeoffs w/ Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman (03/28/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/64397308 Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman join us to discuss…
Death PanelAs Seen On TV (03/24/22)
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…
Death PanelTeaser - The Leonhardt Doctrine w/ Jacob Bacharach (03/21/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/64083399 Jacob Bacharach joins us to discuss New York Times…
Death PanelHow It Doesn't End (03/17/22)
We answer the question on the tip of everyone's tongue: how, exactly, does the pandemic end? As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod…
Death PanelTeaser - Owning the Sun w/ Alexander Zaitchik (03/14/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/63787980 Bea speaks with Alexander Zaitchik about the…
Death PanelMaladies of Empire w/ Jim Downs (03/10/22)
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…
Death PanelTeaser - The Next Normal w/ Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman (03/07/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/63506010 Abby Cartus and Justin Feldman join us for a close…
Death PanelLying Like A State (03/02/22)
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. As…
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Teaser - Texas w/ Jules Gill-Peterson (02/28/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/63185114 We speak with Jules Gill-Peterson about Texas…
Death PanelThe Marketplace of Rights w/ Melissa Gira Grant (Unlocked)
This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted February 14th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod…
Death PanelTeaser - Pro-Covid MDs w/ Dr. Jonathan Howard (02/21/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/62871007 Bea speaks with Dr. Jonathan Howard about the…
Death Panel"Open Everything" (02/17/22)
We discuss the continued fallout of last week's dropped state masking guidelines, the popular new assertion that "one-way masking works," David Leonhardt's…
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Teaser - The Marketplace of Rights w/ Melissa Gira Grant (02/14/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/62568518 Melissa Gira Grant joins us to discuss the record…
Death PanelManufacturing Descent w/ Justin Feldman (02/10/22)
Epidemiologist Justin Feldman joins us to talk through this week's sudden pivot by Democrats to drop state mask mandates. We discuss where this policy change…
Death PanelTeaser - Die For Your Economy w/ Nathan Tankus (02/07/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/62252204 Nathan Tankus returns to help us analyze the Biden…
Death PanelAbolition and the Pandemic w/ Dan Berger (02/03/22)
Dan Berger joins us for a detailed overview of how the pandemic has demonstrated the need for carceral abolition, how little has been done in the last two…
Death PanelTeaser - David Leonhardt and the Emergency of Normal w/ Abby Cartus (01/31/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/61925249 Abby joins us to discuss the New York Times' pivot…
Death PanelInjury Impoverished w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, the history of worker's…
Death PanelPlague School w/ Abby Cartus (01/20/22)
Epidemiologist Abby Cartus returns for a wide ranging conversation on the current state of the school closing/reopening debate and the ongoing vilification of…
Death PanelTeaser - It Is Time for Us to Do What We Have Been Doing and That Time Is Every Day (01/17/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/61291719 We discuss the administration's resigned stance…
Death PanelCancel Student Debt w/ Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum (01/13/22)
We're joined by Astra Taylor and Marshall Steinbaum for a conversation on why ending student debt is so pressing, the Biden administration's failure to fulfill…
Death PanelTeaser - What Would AEI Do? (01/10/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60992988 We turn back the clock to the beginning of the…
Death PanelVaxxed and Collapsed (01/06/22)
We discuss two newly pervasive lines on the pandemic. First, that case numbers are an increasingly unimportant metric, and that what we should be looking to…
Death PanelTeaser - CDC Says Back to Work (01/03/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60691090 We discuss the CDC's decision to shorten its covid…
Death PanelAgainst Cost-Benefit Analysis w/ Frank Pasquale (Unlocked)
Frank Pasquale joins us to discuss the rise of cost-benefit analysis as an influential force in American policy, the many problems with it, and what should be…
Death PanelTeaser - We Opened the Schools and It Wasn't Fine w/ Loretta Torrago (12/27/21)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60399460 Beatrice speaks with Loretta Torrago about the…
Death PanelCovid Year Two (Unlocked)
We review the year in the U.S. covid response, and the profound miscalculations on the part of the government and the media that have played a direct role in…
Death PanelTeaser - Injury Impoverished w/ Nate Holdren (12/20/21)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60137584 We speak with Nate Holdren about his book Injury…
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Teaser - Covid Year Two (12/13/21)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/59879913 We take a close look at the U.S. covid response…