The City in a Time of Plague
April 21, 2020
The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all i…
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On Jews and Plagues – Adventures in Jewish Historiography
April 11, 2020
“The libel that Jews were continually plotting to poison the world had particularly tragic results during the Black Death of 1348–49.Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin Why the Jews? The Reason for A…
Plagues Over the Centuries Have Caused Radical Political Shifts – Examples From the Last 2500 Years
March 31, 2020
Serious epidemics can have far-reaching social, cultural, and geopolitical consequences. The plague which devastated Athens in 430 BC—in the second year of the Peloponnesian War, when an Athenian vict…
Bubonic Plague Ravages Madagascar
November 19, 2017
Since August 1, 171 people have died in Madagascar after becoming infected with a virulent strain of bubonic plague. As of November 10, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 2,11…