Host Suzanne Anker and guests reconsider the virus as both a biological and cultural phenomenon. In its mutating form, new strains have been able to cross species boundaries, just as globalization has created permeable boundaries in geopolitics.

Plastic surgery has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and Suzanne Anker gathers a crew of insiders to examine some of the aesthetic and social issues raised by transforming the body through augmentations, reductions and cosmetic procedures.

Suzanne Anker asks her guests, former Whitney Museum director David Ross, Steven Henry Madoff art journalist and filmmaker Virgil Wong about the federal government's action against the activist artist Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble.