America Is Opening. It Never Should Have Shut Down
I wanted to celebrate the opening day of breweries in Connecticut. But it was hardly that. Open means freedom of…
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”…
In my lifetime, there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States. The flu spread from Hong Kong to…
We have heretofore lived our lives with the presumption that we possess the inalienable right to choose. We are self-governors,…
Two months ago, it had been mandatory in my local grocery to use only shopping bags brought from home. Plastic…
With the latest reports of plummeting death rates from all causes, this crisis is over. The pandemic of doom erupted…
Two months ago, it had been mandatory in my local grocery to use only shopping bags brought from home. Plastic…
Most of us didn’t realize, until very recently, what a remarkable stain is put upon a person (or whole people)…
Thinking back to February 28, 2020, and the New England Journal of Medicine. It published an article called “Covid-19 —…
I’ve been busy almost daily with talks on the continuing crisis in our economic lives. There is so much to…
If you watch the national news, you hear nonstop and correct reports of crowded hospitals and morgues, exhausted overworked doctors…
Jack Reed, the American communist who was buried in the Kremlin, is the author of the extremely exciting book Ten…
Thinking back to the information chaos of six weeks ago, we might be able to make some sense of the…
You are indeed conserving toilet paper. You have never had such an appreciation for it. It’s “white gold.” There it…
Like you, I try to get out once a day to keep clarity of mind, whether out for a walk…
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, is moving up in the betting odds for getting the Democratic presidential nomination, even…
“Sadly, 12 years of stress tests and economic crisis planning never considered the possibility of a pandemic. Let us get…
On November 1, 2005, President George W. Bush held a press conference in which he called for draconian measures and…
This pandemic crisis is not only about health and economics; we are also experiencing an epistemic meltdown. The core question…
I’m writing on the first Saturday of the Coronapocalpyse. I just returned from a shopping trip in town. The laundromat…
That hand sanitizer you are using, where did you get it? The local store or an online shop. And who…
I enjoy being on the show Full Measure to discuss government regulations on gas cans and other things like showers,…
Imagine if you are the organizer of a major arts and tech event that attracts a quarter-million attendees. One week…
Have you noticed how philosophical COVID-19 is making us? The possible presence of imminent death of so many – true…
Virus fears are causing many companies to encourage their employees to work at home instead of coming into the office.…