Introducing Deep Background with Noah Feldman: Civil Liberties in the Time of COVID-19
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
From Pushkin Industries, introducing Deep Background with Noah Feldman.
Every story has a backstory, even in today's 24-hour news cycle. In Deep Background, Harvard Law School professor and Bloomberg Opinions columnist Noah Feldman will bring together a cross-section of expert guests to explore the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context that help us understand what's really going on behind the biggest stories in the news.
This week, Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and a leading Supreme Court advocate, discusses where public health stops and our individual liberties begin. Plus, what does it mean that the Supreme Court has postponed oral arguments?
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
| 0:05.3 | Well, today's your lucky day. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
| 0:17.9 | We have fun. We get weird, and we want you to join us. You can listen to |
| 0:22.0 | many stuff the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.2 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories, behind |
| 0:37.0 | the stories in the news. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Noah Feldman. |
| 0:40.5 | The coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally a public health challenge to us right now. |
| 0:46.4 | But as we've seen in a series of special episodes that we've been running the last few weeks, |
| 0:50.7 | that public health challenge has broad interaction with a whole bunch of other |
| 0:56.3 | serious policy issues. One is the economy, and we've explored that in a recent episode. |
| 1:02.7 | Another is the law itself, specifically constitutional law, the law that governs the question of |
| 1:09.0 | where public health stops and your individual |
| 1:12.1 | liberties begin. |
| 1:13.8 | That's an issue that's only beginning to emerge as central in our public debate around |
| 1:18.8 | governmental response to the coronavirus. |
| 1:21.2 | To talk about this issue, I had a conversation with Professor Richard Lazarus of Harvard Law |
| 1:26.7 | School. |
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