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Welcome to The Plague, the podcast where we look, not just at the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but at our nation’s home-made plagues, plagues created by human socioeconomic systems, that make the coronavirus more virulent and dangerous. The coronavirus infects the human body, but what illnesses in our body politic make us more vulnerable to it? Economic inequality? Environmental devastation? Labor precarity? Alienation? We pick a different societal plague each week and talk with an expert a ...
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Episode 9: The Plague of "Burn It Down" Partisanship with Princeton professor Julian Zelizer
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Our current President and his party seem to be more interested in slandering their political opponents, propagating conspiracy theories, and fomenting division and distraction in our society, than in organizing a coherent response to the pandemic, the economic crisis, and other urgent problems that a competent and responsible government would addre…
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Episode 8: The Plague of "There Is No Alternative" with Stephen Duncombe of the Center for Artistic Activism
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We are in the middle of the biggest protest moment in the United States since 1968, and are confronted with the greatest wave of repressive violence in response from the authorities. What is the role of the radical imagination, and the idea of Utopia, for social movements at this major turning point in our history? And how do we overcome the deeply…
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Episode 7: The Plague of Worker Expendability with Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez
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In this episode, we speak with guests Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez about the plague of worker expendability in our current economy, and how worker owned-cooperatives are the cure. The coronavirus has only put into starker relief a problem we have always had--that the lives and well-being of many workers are considered disposable by the CEOs and …
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Episode 6: The Plague of Lie Machines with Oxford professor Philip N. Howard
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Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political conversations, and jeo…
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Episode 5: The Plague of Orwellian Fear, Division, and Denial of Data and Science, with Michael Gene Sullivan
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In this episode, Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright and performer, collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and author of a celebrated dramatic adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, talks about the culture of anti-intellectualism, class domination, distraction, and defeatism, and prescribes his resolutely revolutionary brand of political th…
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Episode 4: The Plague of Ecomatricide, with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens
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In this episode we talk with artist-activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens about the plague of ecomatricide, and how the cure is ecosexuality. What happens when we think of the Earth, not as our mother, but as our lover? Host and Editor: L.M. Bogad: www.lmbogad.com Music: Jason Montero https://m.soundcloud.com/jamoja, and by my other friend nam…
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Episode 3: The Plague of the Profit-Based Biomedical Research System, with Merith Basey of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
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Our third podcast of the Plague features an interview with Merith Basey of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Merith explains to us how the corporate, profit-based biomedical research system is a plague that distorts the research and development process for life-saving medicines and vaccines. And it's a taxpayer-subsidized plague at that.…
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Epsode 2: The Plague of Racism and Colonialism with Dr. Rupa Marya of the Do No Harm Coalition and Rupa and the April Fishes
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Our second episode of the Plague features an interview with Dr. Rupa Marya of the Do No Harm Coalition, and the band Rupa and the April Fishes. Dr. Marya explains how the racism and colonialism in daily life, the grocery store, the workplace (including the hospital she works in), and in global politics, makes Covid and other plagues more destructiv…
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Episode 1: The Plague of Rainforest Destruction, with Jeff Conant of Friends of the Earth
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The launch of the Plague podcast is timed thematically during the holiday of Passover, which recounts how a series of plagues destabilized an authoritarian regime severely enough that its most persecuted immigrant minority was liberated. Our first podcast of the Plague features an interview with Jeff Conant of Friends of the Earth, an activist, aut…
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