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Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, control new and potentially dangerous technology, and address world poverty to create a more perfect future. Future Perfect: Good Robot coming soon in January 2025. Follow now to get notified when new episodes drop. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic
Future Perfect
1 hour 4 minutes
5 years ago
What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic
Co-host Sean Illing talks to Robert Zaretsky, professor of French history at the University of Houston, about Albert Camus’s novel The Plague.
Relevant resources:
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Simone Weil: An Anthology, by Simone Weil
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life, by Robert Zaretsky
Featuring:
Robert Zaretsky, professor of history at the University of Houston
Host:
Sean Illing (@seanilling), senior interviews writer, Vox
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Future Perfect
Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, control new and potentially dangerous technology, and address world poverty to create a more perfect future. Future Perfect: Good Robot coming soon in January 2025. Follow now to get notified when new episodes drop. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
