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Award-winning investigative journalist David Heath talks about his new book, Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine.
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David Lat on Surviving COVID and Covering The Court
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David Lat is a lawyer turned legal journalist, writer, and speaker. He is the founding editor of Above the Law, one of the nation’s largest legal news websites, which reaches more than 1.5 million unique visitors a month. His writing about law and legal affairs has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among other publications.
Dr. Thomas Geisbert on The COVID-19 Vaccines
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World-renowned Ebola researcher at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Dr. Thomas Geisbert, talks about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Fordham professor Charles Camosy on Nursing Home Abuse and COVID
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Fordham professor Charles Camosy talks about COVID-19 and Nursing Home Abuse. We also get into his book, Resisting Throwaway Culture, and the importance of having a consistent life ethic.
Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works
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Matt Ridley talks with Matt about his new book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom. He also talks about whether the media’s negativity bias is driving coronavirus coverage, the link between Vitamin D and COVID-19, why prizes are better than patents for generating new drugs, and how a prize helped launch Michael Lewis’s writing career.
How to Reopen the Economy
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Avik Roy, President of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, talks about “A New Strategy for Bringing People Back to Work During COVID-19.” Then, Thomas LaDuke, head of FTR Radio, discusses the Michigan protests.