episodes about COVID
03/08/2022
Episode 175: “The West’s New Totalitarianism” with Dr. Naomi Wolf and Jenin YounesIn the past two years, measures taken to deal with Covid have resulted in extraordinary losses of freedom in the West - in fact, all over the world - driven by government mandates and lockdowns. Now that it's clear that we're no longer in the throes of a pandemic, what next? For how long are citizens prepared to accept these extraordinary extensions of state power and loss of their civil li ...
10/13/2021
Episode 156: “Liberty or Lockdown” with Jeffrey TuckerIt is hard to overstate the assault on civil liberties we are witnessing in America today. What began over a year and a half ago as temporary government measures to keep us safe from a virus spread from China, have now metastasized ...
06/01/2020
Episode 84: Post Pandemic K-12 Education: Why We Don’t Want a Return to “Normal” with Jeanne AllenWhat comes next when we emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown? What is “normal” is going to be like? Well in the case of America’s K-12 schools we should not want a return to normal, where “normal” means a nation where fewer than 30% of students - and fewer than 15% in poor communities - read, write, spell, do math or know history, science, or civics on grade level. “With the doors to m ...