Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that. Javier Arcos Hódar 1 Jul 2020 · 15 min read
Is State Protection a Threat to Liberal Democracy? Protection at the cost of a planned economy and a surveillance state would be no protection at all. Ross Stitt 10 Jun 2020 · 12 min read
Pandemics and Pandemonium Cities in which inequality has been allowed to deepen for a generation now need to find new strategies that provide hope and fairer policies to their poorer residents. The alternative is watching them burn when minority and working class resentment inevitably erupts. Joel Kotkin 2 Jun 2020 · 11 min read
Moving Away from Meat Means Welcoming the New 'Flexitarians' Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade. Ari David Blaff 29 May 2020 · 6 min read
PODCAST 91: Oxford's Thomas Hale on Measuring the Variation in Government Response to COVID-19 Quillette 19 May 2020 ·
Drop Anchor: How COVID-19 Will Kill the Cruise Industry Even before COVID-19, cruising already was seen as a politically incorrect, white-privilege, “Ok, boomer” form of indulgence. Barbara Kay 19 May 2020 · 6 min read
PODCAST 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis Toby Young 14 May 2020 ·
After the Virus: The Way We Live Next Much of the prognostication about the future’s outlines, especially the more dire forecasts, assume that we will change, or be changed, greatly. But will we? John Lloyd 10 May 2020 · 14 min read
The Age of the Homebody Has Only Begun The bar for opening the door and going outside is simply going to be set much higher. Einat Wilf 7 May 2020 · 8 min read