Small Signs of Hope that Lockdowns Could Soon End
For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and…
Lockdowns are Cruel and Regressive, says Oxford University’s Professor Sunetra Gupta
Oxford University Professor Sunetra Gupta has been an outspoken voice for calm, science, and rationality in dealing with this virus.…
Older Americans Should Be Anti-Lockdown Activists
It’s happened to quite a number of us. We write against the lockdowns for all the incredible economic, psychological, and…
Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other
A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could…
When Your Intellectual Heroes Let You Down
The lockdown upheaval has affected every aspect of life, including intellectual life. People we have never heard of have become…
What Will Not Recover: Government
What becomes of government credibility in the post-lockdown period? There are thousands of politicians in this country for whom this…
King Canute and the Virus Tide
Nine-hundred years ago, the English historian Henry of Huntingdon wrote down an older Anglo-Saxon story/myth of King Canute who claimed…
Authoritarianism in Auckland
For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt with the Coronavirus! They did the tightest lockdown…
We Need a Principled Anti-Lockdown Movement
Shell-shocked is a good way to describe the mood in the U.S. for a good part of the Spring of…
Madness in Melbourne
Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel days of…