10.1 - A Reading of Anand Bhat's "Love in the Time of Corona."

04/27/20 • 15 min

Episode 10.1 of the CRB Podcast is a reading of a piece by Dr. Anand Bhat, our health and society editor. He describes the present and post-covid epidemic from political, economic, and medical lenses, focusing specifically on how we will deal with a health-care system where most people receive healthcare from work will manage to get by in a system where most people lose their jobs. He also discusses the concern of right wing nationalism combined with subsidies and government handouts. SUBSCRIBE on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Music Credit: aLIVE from Muamin Collective

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9.1 - A Conversation with Philip Metres prior to the publication of his "Shrapnel Maps"

9.1 - On this Episode, CRB interviews Philip Metres, whose book "Shrapnel Maps" comes out on April 24. We jump off of J. David's review of the book(https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/2020/4/7/why-do-you-laugh-on-philip-metress-shrapnel-maps) and talk about the power of myth and story telling to bridge ideological divides, the politics of representation, and the ability of poetry to do what political theory and philosophy in creative/different, not necessarily better, ways. Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020). His other works include The Sound of Listening (essays), Pictures at an Exhibition (poems), the translation I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, and Sand Opera. His work has garnered fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as six Ohio Arts Council grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, two Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Award, the Alice James Award, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Most recently, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. Music Credit: a-Live of Muamin Collective SUBSCRIBE on Spotify and Apple Music

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10.2 - Helicopter Money and M4A (w/Anand Bhat)

On episode 10.2 of the CRB Podcast, we talk with our Health and Society Editor Anand Bhat about his recent piece, "Love in the Time of Corona." Major topics include the right-wing's sudden seizure of a left populist movement, "helicopter money," what's going to happen in a situation where the many unemployed rely on their previous employer for insurance, and an analysis of single-payer healthcare systems in South Korea and Taiwan. - Interviewer is William Lennon (@podracing_champ) Music credit: aLive and Gigi D'Agostino Read the piece here: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/2020/4/21/love-in-the-time-of-corona-or-the-neoliberals-dont-have-a-plan-for-the-covid-19-epidemic