COVID-19 - Quillette (Page 5)

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

Can the Chinese Communist Party Achieve Global Dominance?

Aaron Sarin

29 Jun 2020 · 15 min read

COVID-19 and the College Football Debate

Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.

Daniel McGraw

25 Jun 2020 · 13 min read

Rethinking Health Disparities

True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.

Zachary Robert Caverley

24 Jun 2020 · 11 min read

Reassessing the Guidance on Face Masks

Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.

Dagfinn Reiersøl

17 Jun 2020 · 7 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

The Battle for Russian Journalism

Opinion, he says, is not the same as activism and purely objective journalism does not exist.

Alexandra Vladimirova and John Lloyd

7 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 · 12 min read

Fighting COVID-19: Australia’s (Largely Untold) Success Story

Australians know that other countries are still suffering under lockdown, and that even within Australia, some regions are still suffering terribly.

Claire Lehmann

30 May 2020 · 8 min read

COVID-19 Has Exposed Critical Weaknesses in Global Higher Education

While the pandemic has been challenging for everyone, let’s hope the disruption that is taking place in higher education is the beginning of a broader reform movement that refocuses the emphasis on the learner and how instructors and faculty can empower them to create value in the marketplace.

Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis

29 May 2020 · 6 min read

How New Zealand Is Beating COVID-19

At the time of writing, New Zealand had reported just three new cases of COVID-19 in nine days.

Sean Welsh

22 May 2020 · 8 min read

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

Towards a Better Urbanism

The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants.