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
COVID-19
A collection of 126 posts
Can the Chinese Communist Party Achieve Global Dominance?
Aaron Sarin
· 15 min read
COVID-19 and the College Football Debate
Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.
Daniel McGraw
· 13 min read
Rethinking Health Disparities
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 11 min read
Reassessing the Guidance on Face Masks
Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.
Dagfinn Reiersøl
· 7 min read
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
The Battle for Russian Journalism
Opinion, he says, is not the same as activism and purely objective journalism does not exist.
Alexandra Vladimirova and John Lloyd
· 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
Fighting COVID-19: Australia’s (Largely Untold) Success Story
Australians know that other countries are still suffering under lockdown, and that even within Australia, some regions are still suffering terribly.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
COVID-19 Has Exposed Critical Weaknesses in Global Higher Education
While the pandemic has been challenging for everyone, let’s hope the disruption that is taking place in higher education is the beginning of a broader reform movement that refocuses the emphasis on the learner and how instructors and faculty can empower them to create value in the marketplace.
Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis
· 6 min read
How New Zealand Is Beating COVID-19
At the time of writing, New Zealand had reported just three new cases of COVID-19 in nine days.
Sean Welsh
· 8 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
Towards a Better Urbanism
The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants.
Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky
· 12 min read
Sweden Has Resisted a Lockdown. But That Doesn't Make it a Bastion of Liberty
Its choice of a uniquely lax approach to the pandemic should not be mistaken for a sudden turn toward individual freedom.
Paulina Neuding
· 6 min read
COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance
A culture war over privacy looms.
Alex Gladstein
· 10 min read