As Australia’s Politicians Enforce Yet Another Lockdown, Small Businesses Keep Suffering Frustrated owners have pled for more advance notice of lockdowns and re-starts, so as to allow them to plan their work schedules, inventories, staff management, and customer communications. Geoff Parkes 29 Aug 2021 · 9 min read
Vexed by the Un-Vaxxed Civil society is based on the fundamental premise that we give up certain liberties to secure tranquility, defense, welfare, and greater liberty, such as the freedom from fatal diseases. Michael Shermer 14 Aug 2021 · 13 min read
COVID-Zero: Was It Worth It? If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away. James Newburrie 9 Aug 2021 · 10 min read
Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen. Christopher J. Snowdon 28 Jul 2021 · 16 min read
Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets. Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin 6 Jul 2021 · 13 min read
On the Dangers of Big COVID One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID. Michael Robillard 3 Jul 2021 · 14 min read
Australia's COVID Catch-22 Australia has every advantage under the sun: plentiful economic resources, a highly skilled workforce, and traditionally competent governments. Matthew Lesh 30 Jun 2021 · 8 min read
The 'Lab Leak' Inquiry at the State Department Anyone who cares about ensuring that the lab-leak hypothesis is taken seriously should probably be thanking me, rather than vilifying me. Christopher Ashley Ford 14 Jun 2021 · 19 min read
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID Taking advantage of the post-pandemic era may start with securing national health but will depend over time on creating better conditions for adaptive grassroots businesses. Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger 4 Jun 2021 · 11 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Paradox of Choice While all the major vaccines have been deemed safe and effective, they are increasingly talked about as though they are different. Andrew Glover 2 Jun 2021 · 4 min read
How Strong Was Taiwan’s COVID Response? Taiwan’s COVID response will likely be remembered as one of the world’s best. Ben Weinstein 1 Jun 2021 · 12 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
Splendid Triviality: Philosophy, Art, and Sport in a Time of Crisis They are necessary because without them none of the things that are noble can flourish. Craig Clifford 14 Apr 2021 · 8 min read