Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics
To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
Javier Arcos Hódar
· 15 min read
How We Live Next
A collection of 9 posts
Is State Protection a Threat to Liberal Democracy?
Protection at the cost of a planned economy and a surveillance state would be no protection at all.
Ross Stitt
· 12 min read
Pandemics and Pandemonium
Cities in which inequality has been allowed to deepen for a generation now need to find new strategies that provide hope and fairer policies to their poorer residents. The alternative is watching them burn when minority and working class resentment inevitably erupts.
Joel Kotkin
· 12 min read
Moving Away from Meat Means Welcoming the New 'Flexitarians'
Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.
Ari David Blaff
· 6 min read
PODCAST 91: Oxford's Thomas Hale on Measuring the Variation in Government Response to COVID-19
Thomas Hale, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, talks to Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Drop Anchor: How COVID-19 Will Kill the Cruise Industry
Even before COVID-19, cruising already was seen as a politically incorrect, white-privilege, “Ok, boomer” form of indulgence.
Barbara Kay
· 6 min read
PODCAST 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis
John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China’s Chernobyl? John recently wrote about
Toby Young
· 1 min read
After the Virus: The Way We Live Next
Much of the prognostication about the future’s outlines, especially the more dire forecasts, assume that we will change, or be changed, greatly. But will we?
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
The Age of the Homebody Has Only Begun
The bar for opening the door and going outside is simply going to be set much higher.
Einat Wilf
· 8 min read