Letters and Politics

Fund Drive Special – Kyle Harper on The History of Civilization, Science, and the Coronavirus

Today we talk about how history can also teach us about the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible consequences.

Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. He is writing a new history of infectious disease.