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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.
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.
As regular readers of Quillette will know, I work at a warehouse in West Sacramento, California, where every workday I toil in close quarters with dozens of other employees. In the days before the advent of the novel coronavirus pandemic, that wasn’t a problem. Now, however, it’s a
It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders.
New digital connections could incubate a new urban culture unlike any we have seen.
Physicians started to prepare families for the possibility of a delayed death.
Measures implemented too early are deemed “alarmist,” if implemented too late, “negligent.”
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.
Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.
Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
The fact is, no child is actually born in the wrong body.
Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens.