Hi I'm Kevin Townsend. I help produce podcasts here at The Atlantic. It's been a while since the most recent episode of Crazy Genius and we wanted to let you know about some of our other shows. With the coronavirus affecting everything these days, we launched a new daily show called

Social Distance, all about life in a pandemic.

Most people I've spoken to who think about public health and preparing us talk about this concept of

cycles of panic and neglect. So guess which one we're in now? That sounds a lot

like my day-to-day. Right, right, yes.

It's hosted by James Hamblin, a staff writer here and an actual doctor.

We have flattened the curve, but it is not flat enough and his friend executive producer

Catherine Wells okay we have to keep six feet from each other this is how it goes

listeners to Crazy Genius might want to start with episode 12. Can I have a drink? Derek Thompson joins to talk

about the false choice between saving lives and saving the economy.

There's no such thing as saving an economy wherein millions of people are also dying because of a

pandemic that's running roughshod through a officially opened economy. That

doesn't make any sense. Every day on social distance, Jim and Catherine try to answer the questions big and small that now seem

to dominate our lives.

To subscribe, just search for social distance wherever you get your podcasts.

And just as the world focused on this current disaster, the Atlantic launched

floodlines, its eight-part miniseries about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Staff writer Van Newkirk narrates an episode of American history that feels all

too relevant now.

This was just four years after 9-11. We've been telling ourselves a story that America

comes together in the face of hard times,

that it doesn't leave its own people behind. But in New Orleans, the next week

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