Death Panel
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
w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson.
https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
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Dec 22, 2022 • 3h 5min
Covid Year Three (Unlocked)
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,” here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-liberals-12-76127094
This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.
After this episode first aired, we adapted it into a piece for The New Inquiry called “The Year the Pandemic ‘Ended.’” Find Part One (of three) here: https://thenewinquiry.com/the-year-the-pandemic-ended-part-1/
Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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Dec 20, 2022 • 9min
Teaser - How Liberals Killed Masking (12/19/22)
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We look back at how such a basic intervention as masking during a pandemic became increasingly scrutinized, undermined, and ultimately stigmatized in mainstream discourse over the last three years.
Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 2:33:45, 19 December 2022
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Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 46min
Laboratories of Extraction w/ Karen Tani (12/15/22)
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 the entire US welfare state.
As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Get Health Communism here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find the Marta Russell symposium we co-organized with Karen here: https://lpeproject.org/symposia/capitalism-disability/
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Dec 14, 2022 • 17min
Teaser - Covid Year Three (12/13/22)
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 that worked to normalize covid in 2022.
Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 3:10:29, 13 December 2022
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Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 23min
Islands of Security w/ Gabriel Winant (Unlocked)
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, and resisting the temptation to look back uncritically toward the "golden age" of organized labor.
This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.
Find Gabe's book "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch
As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
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Dec 6, 2022 • 7min
Teaser - Pfizer and the Leviathan w/ Amy Kapczynski (12/05/22)
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Bea talks to Amy Kapczynski about the political economy of drug development and how, from HIV/AIDS to covid, intellectual property laws support and make possible big pharma's business model at the expense of global public health.
Amy Kapczynski is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, co-director of the Law and Political Economy Project and cofounder of the Law and Political Economy blog.
Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 1:08:15, 5 December 2022
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Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 28min
The Pandemic Prison w/ Dan Berger (12/01/22)
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 need to renew calls from early in the pandemic to “free them all for public health.”
You can preorder Dan’s forthcoming book, “Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey”
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360
As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch
join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Nov 29, 2022 • 8min
Teaser - 500,000 Cops w/ Justin Feldman (11/28/22)
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Bea, Artie and Phil are joined by Justin Feldman to cast doubt on a recent paper claiming that the US is suffering from an "injustice of under-policing" and that the way to finally reduce mass incarceration is ... 500,000 more cops.
Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 1:11:57, 28 November 2022
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Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 24min
"Immunity Debt" (Unlocked)
Beatrice, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's recently announced fall covid plan, the rather lazy recycling of old lines to justify covid normalization, and the recent uptick in claims that pandemic mitigations were worse than the virus itself because of so-called "immunity debt."
(Episode begins at 2:00 after introduction.)
As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch
join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Nov 22, 2022 • 18min
Teaser - Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (11/21/22)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/74944636
Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim.
Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007).
Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 2:19:28, 21 November 2022
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