Trump has Covid! Is the virus totally random? And listener questions.
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Happy belated Mid-Autumn Festival!\\xa0
We pried Andy away from doomscrolling 45 to bring you this late-night episode of semi-coherent thoughts on the American regime, post-wet market theories of Covid-19, and listener queries on class.
0:00 \\u2013\\xa0What is, even, anything? The big, maskless T has Covid, as does everyone around him. We talk conspiracies and sad, middling fantasies of functioning government. Is it time to give up on electoral politics? Will there ever be another Bernie?
28:30 \\u2013 Twitter warrior and coronavirus prophet Zeynep Tufekci is out with a provocative new piece at The Atlantic. We reminisce about the bad old days at the start of this podcast, which we nearly christened \\u201cPangolin Power Hour.\\u201d What does it mean for Covid-19 to be an \\u201coverdispersed pathogen\\u201d? Who is Pareto, and why does nationalized health care matter?
55:40 \\u2013 We address a composite (brilliant! erudite!) listener question about class and class cosplay. Why do upper-class wokesters downplay their families\\u2019 money? Do upper- vs. upper-middle-class distinctions even matter in elite spaces? Should our class backgrounds influence our career choices or social politics? And why do we tell and retell Asian American immigrant tales of overcoming? Thanks to Janis Jin, @Soledad_Kyrie, and Lisa.
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