The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak
Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.
COVID-19
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COVID-19 Will (Finally) Force American Universities to Reinvent Themselves
Polarization is baked into the current system, and no reform program will completely level the playing field.
To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’
In the case of COVID-19, we know that diabetes, hypertension, and obesity all are significant comorbidities.
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.
Can the Chinese Communist Party Achieve Global Dominance?
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.
Rethinking Health Disparities
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.
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.
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.
The Battle for Russian Journalism
Opinion, he says, is not the same as activism and purely objective journalism does not exist.
The Return of Riot Ideology
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.
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.