Guest: Geoff Manaugh is a regular contributor for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and other publications. He is the coauthor, with Nicola Twilley, of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine.
Featured photo by Nicola Twilley. In the photo, Geoff Manaugh and Dr. Luigi Bertinato wearing plague gear from different eras: Manaugh in twenty-first-century personal protective equipment and Dr. Bertinato in the costume of a Black Death-era physician.