Why We Still Need a Flu Vaccine
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We spoke with Jeremy Brown, Director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at NIH and author of Influenza, about the hunt for a flu vaccine -- and why we still need one.
June 24, 2020
Trump, the Protests, and the Insurrection Act
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We spoke with Saikrishna Prakash of UVA Law on Trump, the protests, the Insurrection Act, and executive power.
June 22, 2020
How to Survive the Next COVID Crisis
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We spoke with Judith Matloff, crisis trainer and author of How To Drag A Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope To Never Need, about what survival actually requires.
June 11, 2020
How To Become A Contact Tracer
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We spoke with John Hopkins professor Emily Gurley on how to become a contact tracer and why it matters.
June 8, 2020
Why You Should Read Proust In 2021
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Proust scholar Caroline Weber told us why In Search of Lost Time makes for essential reading.
June 3, 2020
The Truth About China and COVID
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We spoke with Andreas Fulda about the truth about China's internal response to COVID and what it meant for the rest of the world.
June 1, 2020
Adam Tooze on the COVID Economy
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We spoke with Adam Tooze, professor at Columbia University and the author of Crashed, about the COVID economy and if it's permanent.
May 27, 2020
Translating The Plague During a Plague
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We spoke with Laura Marris, the translator of a new version of Albert Camus’ seminal novel The Plague, about translating this classic during a pandemic.
May 26, 2020
China Uses the Pandemic to Squeeze BRI Borrowers
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China is using the pandemic as an excuse to squeeze its BRI borrowers. Here's what the world can do about it.
May 20, 2020
The Spanish Flu, the Deadliest Pandemic
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Our newest episode features best-selling author John Barry on his book The Great Influenza: The Deadliest Pandemic in History and the 1918 flu outbreak.
May 18, 2020
