Coronavirus Update; Leap Year Explained; Ross Douthat; Black History Reframed
On today's show:
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Dr. Oxiris Barbot, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, talks about what the city is doing to prepare for potential coronavirus cases;
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Jeanne Whalen, global business reporter for The Washington Post, talks about how the coronavirus panic has affected business and global trade, including how U.S. companies are still waiting for a dizzying array of products from stalled Chinese factories;
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Bill Nye, science educator and host of the Science Rules! with Bill Nye podcast, explains the science behind leap years.
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Ross Douthat, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, co-host of The Argument podcast, and author of The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020), talks about his new book that offers a somber assessment of Western culture’s future (and how the Star Wars saga signals the decline), plus weighs in on the 2020 Democratic field;
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As Black History Month comes to a close, we talk to some of the contributors to the New York Times' 1619 Project. Today, Jazmine Hughes, a story editor for The New York Times Magazine who edited the 1619 broadsheet, looks back to 1619 and the origin of the U.S. racialized slave trade.
