How Does All of This End?
There is a sense in the air that the pandemic is winding down, and the toxic culture of division, fear,…
There is a sense in the air that the pandemic is winding down, and the toxic culture of division, fear,…
New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who bears so much responsibility for the state of his windswept state, last year wrote…
Texas is right now consumed in debate over the question of how the catastrophic power and water outages could have…
All this talk of a $15 national minimum wage prompted me to revisit the standard textbook on economics of the…
In the early years of the Bitcoin boom, I attended a raucous and truly hilarious conference of newly rich digital…
People of the future will look back at these 11 months and be very confused. How could virtually the entire…
The firing of the New York Times’s star virus reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr., made international news, given his status…
When lockdowns first happened, my initial thought was geeky, and only later did I begin to realize the implications for…
Let’s speak frankly about a strange protocol foisted on us nearly a year ago – not just us but also…
There are probably multiple reasons why coronavirus cases in the US are down nearly 50% in the US in the…
What a glorious thing the reopening is! After nearly a year of darkening times, the light has begun to dawn,…
For nearly a year, governments have been instructing people to stay put. Don’t leave your home unless you have…
There is some bitter irony embedded in the original campaign 2016 presidential pitch to “Make America Great Again.” One looks…
Daily the news is pouring in: SARS-CoV-2 behaves like a textbook respiratory virus in its vectors of transmission and its…
The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020.…
“Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles,” wrote Ludwig…
As a naturally optimistic person, it vexes me that the word catastrophe has echoed in my mind since early March…
This year, the American Institute for Economic Research published 1,380 articles with 10.5 million readers from all countries in the…
The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full…
Lockdown hell shocked me like nothing else in my lifetime. The very notion that governments would push the off button…
If you live in a lockdown state, you might not remember what normal life feels like. I’m pretty sure I…
Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Coronavirus…
What was the basis of panic that led the lights to darken on civilization? The most important date here might…
Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it will…
In a wide-ranging interview in the New York Times, Melinda Gates made the following remarkable statement: “What did surprise us…
Even after eleven years experience, and a per Bitcoin price of nearly $20,000, the incredulous are still with us. I…
The Supreme Court has decided that there is something not quite kosher about padlocking houses of worship, or imposing extreme…
Scrub and spray everything with chemicals, bathe in Purrell, mask up, stand no nearer to anyone else than six feet,…
The Centers for Disease Control warned us not to travel or meet in multigenerational gatherings during Thanksgiving. Which is to…
The phrase “fog of war” is attributed to Carl von Clausewitz. It has come to refer to the confusion and…