The New York Times Revives Its Grim Past
Walter Duranty of the NYT, as featured in the 2019 film Mr. Jones The resignation letter from former New York…
Walter Duranty of the NYT, as featured in the 2019 film Mr. Jones The resignation letter from former New York…
What’s closed in the arts? Nearly everything. Unless you want to switch on your laptop. Otherwise forget it. Hardly anyone…
I was sitting in the green room in a Manhattan television studio on the day that the storm seemed to…
The Trump administration announced yesterday that it might follow India’s lead and ban TikTok for Americans. There is some sense…
For many people, it was their first experience in a full denial of freedom. Locked in their homes. Prevented from…
Many millions have spent the last four months in sadness and depression. It’s hard to watch the world shattered by…
One of the most marvelous books I’ve read this year is Donald Henderson’s personal story of the eradication of smallpox.…
Peter R. Quinones interviewed me on his podcast on the topic: the origin of the lockdown idea. This was the…
The betting markets judge Trump’s prospects for keeping the presidency with more negativity each day. As of this writing, there…
It was the 17th year for the Porcupine Freedom Festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, held at the Rogers Campground. It…
It’s some kind of intuition we have. We see a little convertible with the top down, buzzing here and there.…
We’ve lived through the most bizarre experience of human folly in my lifetime, and perhaps in generations. Among the most…
We live in the age of pretend. Governments have behaved more regrettably, ignorantly, arbitrarily, and capriciously than in a generation…
The lockdowners probably had no idea what they were about to unleash. On paper, their plans all seemed fine. Keep…
Ten years ago or so, a popular meme spread on the Internet called first-world problems. The idea here is to…
People are so bored with COVID-19 these days that it takes a special kind of disease news to light up…
On March 12, 2020, a banshee-like cry went out to an email list of public health professionals and government officials…
From early in the lockdown days, it became clear that this crisis would not make us “come together” and be…
Don’t laugh derisively, as people do these days, but I’ve always admired the New York Times. First draft of history.…
“Coronavirus hasn’t been a thing since Friday,” said a friend. “The new story is racism.” Following American media culture can…
Last month, there was a bit of a chill in my right molar. My left molar was already capped after…
See if you can make sense of the following transcript of an interview with Donald Trump on the lockdown, as…
The idea of a full lockdown of society in the event of a pandemic first emerged as an extremist proposal…
I wanted to celebrate the opening day of breweries in Connecticut. But it was hardly that. Open means freedom of…
On March 28, the American Institute for Economic Research ran a terrifying article that didn’t receive the attention it deserved,…
The record shows that the global economy collapsed not because of the COVID-19 pandemic but because governments around the world,…
For two to three months, Americans have suffered the loss of liberty, security, and prosperity in the name of virus…
Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown…
Many people infected with polio don’t show any symptoms. Some become temporarily paralyzed; for others, it’s permanent. In 1952, the…
The year was 1957. Elvis’s new movie “Jailhouse Rock” was packing the theaters. The last episode of “I Love Lucy”…