The Erdoğanization of Hungary
The United States should learn from the Turkey experience.
Shay Khatiri
· 9 min read
‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review
Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today.
Adam Wakeling
· 10 min read
PODCAST 84: Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, on Treating COVID-19
Listen onSpotify Talat Chughtai, Director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad General Hospital, talks to Jonathan Kay about COVID-19, the strain it’s putting on health-care systems, and what we’ve learned from China about how best to treat it.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Romance and Retribution
As an institution grows and evolves, it inevitably requires reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart.
Jamie Palmer
· 34 min read
COVID-19 Science Update for March 31st: Wear a Mask, Georgia's SSE, Kinsa's Fever Map
Both the scientific literature and media reports suggest COVID-19 transmission is most likely to take place (1) within families, and (2) through one-off SSEs of the type described above.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Warehouse Work in an Age of Contagion
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
Kevin Mims
· 6 min read
COVID-19 Science Update for March 30th: The Planet's Deadly Viral Baseline
According to statistics compiled by Our World in Data (OWD), the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 deaths decreased yesterday.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review
Full Surrogacy Now makes a feminist argument for, as the author puts it, “abolishing the family” by no longer attaching any importance to biological relationships between people.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
COVID-19 Science Update for March 29th: Keep Your Voice Down
The latest research on COVID-19 tells us that “the major transmission mechanisms are not fine aerosols but large droplets.”
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Denmark’s Weapons Against COVID-19: Early Action, High Trust—and a No-Nonsense Queen
There is no guarantee that the Danish health system will have the resources to help everyone who needs care. And the economy might be in tatters when the quarantine ends.
Kay Xander Mellish
· 7 min read
Social Distancing During the Black Death
The Black Death wiped out half the population of Europe in the space of four years.
James Hankins
· 5 min read
The Case for Economic Hibernation during the COVID-19 Lockdowns
We are currently in the throes of a new kind of crisis where the underlying economy is healthy, but a non-economic crisis is stopping it in its tracks.
Einat Wilf and Saar Wilf
· 6 min read
Symptoms of Loneliness
When you care for others, when you don’t live alone—and most people don’t—the equation changes radically.
Stephen Elliott
· 6 min read
COVID-19 Science Update for March 28th: Bergamo's Decimation, More SSEs, and the Case for Masks
On an annualized basis, the last three weeks in Lombardy correspond to a regional per-capita death rate of 0.72 percent—or, put another way, the death of one person out of every 140 residents.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
COVID-19 Science Update for March 27th: Super-Spreaders and the Need for New Prediction Models
Absent isolation or other precautionary measures, the average socially active COVID-19 infectee will transmit the disease to an average of about 2.4 people. i.e., the R0 value is 2.4. But super-spreaders can spread a disease to dozens or hundreds.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read