Long-Distance Love during Lockdown
Love, it turns out, remains an enduring mystery.
Marilyn Simon
· 7 min read
COVID-19
A collection of 126 posts
Viral Politics
The lockdowns have impacted different classes differently.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Lessons in Death and Life from the Diaries of Samuel Pepys
In Pepys’s time a scarlet cross on the door denoted an infected household and sentinels stood guard outside to keep people inside.
Colin Fleming
· 8 min read
Beware Your Innate Pessimist
Coronavirus is deadly, but it is not the bubonic plague, which had a mortality rate of 50 percent.
Marian L. Tupy
· 8 min read
Rethinking Human Ecology in the Age of COVID-19: Lessons from a Fish Market
Twelve of the viruses that Geoghegan and her co-authors detected are potentially novel strains.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Searching for a COVID-19 Test in America
Most people were now wearing masks, and a few were obviously nervous about inadvertently drifting too close.
Diana Lambert
· 16 min read
Moral Injury and the Battle against COVID-19
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become the public face of such anxiety disorders.
James Jeffrey
· 7 min read
Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
Coleman Hughes
· 5 min read
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: COVID-19 Shows We Can’t Have It All
Which brings us back to COVID-19. By one estimate, 80,000 Americans died from flu-related illnesses during the 2017 — 2018 flu season.
Zaid Jilani
· 7 min read
Yes, People Are Dying. But It’s Still Okay to Worry About Your Job
When people are dying horrible deaths in isolation from loved ones, and essential workers are putting themselves and their families at risk by going into danger zones, this isn’t the time to focus on how much we’ll “repay” young, healthy people who, though worried and unemployed, are safe at home.
Dan Meegan
· 7 min read
COVID-19 and Liberalism
If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.
Kristijan Fidanovski
· 9 min read
Seven Reflections on Isolation
Social isolation can be so stressful that it “disrupts brain development (in younger members of social species) and leads to mental health problems later in life.”
Marc Frazier
· 11 min read
I’m a Nurse. But No, I Don’t Want to Be a Hero
In some cases, the efforts of nurses and doctors have been called heroic, especially in hot spots such as Italy and New York City.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 5 min read
Sickness and Stoicism
And if indeed “everything hangs on one’s thinking,” as he and his philosophical heirs frequently remind us, then this pandemic is just as much an opportunity as it is a curse.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 7 min read
I Run a Family-Owned Construction Firm. Here’s What COVID-19 Did to My World
Our business model is simple: We build and fix things so that other people have a place to live and work, and so that we can pay our own bills and live our own lives.
Jocelyn Burzuik
· 10 min read