Last Born In The Wilderness

Nov 18 2024 405 ep. 63 mins 1.1k
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A podcast about death, dying, and the ruptures of life in between.

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377 / Antivirals Now / Long Covid Action Project

Nov 18 2024 54 mins  
Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) activists Corsi Rosenthal (CR) and Clean Air (CA), along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, discuss the recent direct action CR and CA participated in to disrupt the National Institute of Health's (NIH) first meeting for the RECOVER Initiative, ostensibly created to "understand, treat, and prevent Long COVID" in the United States. /

Preview / Antivirals Now / Long Covid Action Project

Nov 14 2024 11 mins  
Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) activists Corsi Rosenthal (CR) and Clean Air (CA), along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, discuss the recent direct action CR and CA participated in to disrupt the National Institute of Health's (NIH) first meeting for the RECOVER Initiative, ostensibly created to "understand, treat, and prevent Long COVID" in the United States. //

376 / Between The Abysmal + Catastrophic / Matthew N. Lyons

Nov 03 2024 57 mins  
Political analyst, writer, and Three Way Fight contributor Matthew N. Lyons joins me to discuss his analysis of the upcoming US presidential election, and how the choices presented to voters is "between a Democratic option more abysmal than four years ago and a Republican option even more catastrophic than last time." This interview was recorded just a few days before voting day on

375 / October Seventh Fourteen Ninety Two / Mohamed Abdou

Oct 22 2024 94 mins  
Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023. Our discussion flows across various subjects: Al-Aqsa Flood and the US-Israel genocide of Palestinians in Gaza; Islam and the crusading Euro-American imperial project; anti-colonial struggle as resistance, decolonization as "creating the world of many belows"; and Abdou's participation in

Preview / October Seventh Fourteen Ninety Two / Mohamed Abdou

Oct 19 2024 16 mins  
Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

374 / Eye On The Storm / Jeff Masters

Oct 12 2024 58 mins  
Meteorologist Jeff Masters joins me in this interview to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States, as he has written extensively about for the Yale Climate Connections blog, Eye on the Storm, and to contextualize this year's hurricane season within the larger trends of human-caused climate change. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthew

Preview / Eye On The Storm / Jeff Masters

Oct 09 2024 9 mins  
Meteorologist Jeff Masters joins me in this interview to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States, as he has written extensively about for the Yale Climate Connections blog, Eye on the Storm. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

373 Part Two / Covid As Political Defeat / Abby Cartus

Oct 07 2024 81 mins  
Epidemiologist and writer Abby Cartus returns to continue our discussion about the so-called successes and failures of public health, particularly as it relates to the ongoing pandemic. In this interview, I asked Abby to clarify the kinds of data that are collected—mainly from wastewater sites—and how that data is modeled and presented at this phase of the pandemic. How does

373 Part One / Covid As Political Defeat / Abby Cartus

Oct 04 2024 48 mins  
Epidemiologist and writer Abby Cartus joins me in this interview to explore a fascinating set of questions: What does it mean for public health to fail? What does it mean for it to succeed? Within the context of the ongoing pandemic, we often hear, or ourselves may make, the refrain that "public health has failed us." This may be true, but it's quite a bit more than failure we mus

Preview / Part One: Covid As Political Defeat / Abby Cartus

Sep 26 2024 13 mins  
Epidemiologist and writer Abby Cartus joins me in this interview to explore a fascinating set of questions: What does it mean for public health to fail? What does it mean for it to succeed? // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness