Teaser - On “Gerontocracy,” Part 2: Age and Capitalist Disposability w/ Nate Holdren (09/28/26)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/170643206 Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how the concept of “gerontocracy” points us away from structural conditions while at the same time reinforcing dominant ideas about disposability being tied to ability, capacity and age, and why it is so important for the left to critically analyze how that disposability is produced and reproduced. Runtime 2:09:28 This episode is the second of two episodes responding to Samuel Moyn’s book “Gerontocracy in America.” It is a standalone conversation that does not require having heard the first episode. You can find the first episode, a discussion with Gabriel Winant, here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/on-gerontocracy-169919130 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the second recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. If you are looking for our response discussion to the right wing / Fox News outrage over one of our other sessions this year, find it at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Full session description: Our violent border regimes produce illness, debility, and death while destroying the relationships that people rely on to survive. Families are separated, communities destabilized, and care networks fractured through the constant threat of detention. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Silky Shah and A. Naomi Paik discuss border policing as a counterinsurgent attack on health, and how to defend and rebuild collective care in an era of escalating state repression and criminalization, from Prairieland, to the Minnesota 15, to the US State Department’s call for a new Red Scare. Speakers: Beatrice, Silky Shah, A. Naomi Paik Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169919130 Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be understood to act as a mediator of class. Runtime 1:13:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the second recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. If you are looking for our response discussion to the right wing outrage over one of our other sessions, find it at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Full session description: The struggle over trans healthcare is one of the clearest expressions of how medicine, incarceration, and borders are intertwined. As the US and Britain increasingly govern through prohibition, austerity, and criminalization, the reach of policing and punishment has rapidly expanded—both inside and outside the prison walls. Vicky Osterweil, S. Lamble, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton will discuss the carcerality of the anti-trans panic, its centrality to health fascism, and what abolition can teach us about defending care beyond the limits of the state. Speakers: Beatrice, Vicky Osterweil, Lamble Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 Beatrice, Artie and Da’Shaun L. Harrison discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week, and how the media dogpile from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Fox News proved our point. Runtime 1:29:15 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released July 27th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.” Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/168217967 Beatrice speaks with "Bitch" from Mutual Aid Street Solidarity Chicago about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This episode is an extension of the series we ran over the summer, All Care for All People (ACAP), and one of the final episodes remaining in that series. Please note that as with other episodes in this series, this recording has been edited with a lighter touch than usual to preserve its nature as an oral history interview. We will be back next week with a new episode. Runtime 1:41:10 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the first recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. We're posting it ahead of our usual schedule as clips from this session have started circulating online and kicking off a round of discourse on health, health fascism and "fitness," and we wanted to make sure everyone has access to the full remarks. Full session description: As governments retreat from care, and health increasingly becomes a signifier of discipline—rather than provision—fitness, disability, fatness, illness, Blackness, impairment, and bodily capacity are mobilized into measures of moral worth and political belonging. This panel examines how health, disability, body size, and race are instrumentalized by the state and being reorganized under health fascism. Da’Shaun L. Harrison and Beatrice Adler-Bolton will discuss what these transformations reveal about the changing relationship between capitalism, the state, and everyday life. Speakers: Beatrice, Da'Shaun L. Harrison Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released October 20th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Madeline Lane-McKinley about what it means to build a politics of solidarity with young people against the pervasive right wing attacks that in order to "protect" the children we must deny their trans identities, censor their educations, ban their books and cut social welfare programs that support them. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888904657 Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/168215562 Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic." Runtime 1:07:01 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179