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Episode 107: “The Politics of Smallpox in Revolutionary America”

John Fea   |  December 19, 2022

The American Revolution happened in the midst of a smallpox epidemic. In one of the timeliest history books of the publishing season, historian Andrew Wehrman visits the podcast to talk about what the patriots of the American Revolution and the...

National Review turns on Fauci

John Fea   |  January 18, 2022

The editors of one the leading (and still reasonably sane) conservative magazines in the country is calling for Joe Biden to relieve Dr. Anthony Fauci of his “duties at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as chief medical adviser...

The Author’s Corner with Peter Swenson

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 23, 2021

Peter Swenson is Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. This interview is based on his new book, Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in...

The Biden administration is framing health as a matter of personal choice. Why this is a bad idea.

John Fea   |  June 10, 2021

I drove through four states yesterday. I didn’t get out of the car much, but when I did make stops I didn’t see many masks. When I got to my hotel I read Ed Yong’s piece at The Atlantic. Here...

Unlike Evangelicals, Catholics have a high vaccination rate

John Fea   |  April 28, 2021

A significant number of evangelicals do not want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Catholics, on the other hand, have a high vaccination rate. Here is Robert David Sullivan at America: In an attempt to more closely examine the link between...

Why are some Catholics concerned about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine?

John Fea   |  March 19, 2021

Steven Millies of the Catholic Theological Union clears this up for us in a piece at The Conversation. Millies address the belief, popular among many pro-life groups, that the vaccines use fetal tissue from aborted babies: To be clear, none...

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