Risk, Uncertainty, and COVID-19 Strategies
The current crisis has highlighted the risks associated with untamed uncertainty, as well as those associated with under- or overestimating the impact of measures intended to combat COVID-19.
COVID-19
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An ICU Doctor Reports From the Frontline
ICU nurses are some of the true heroes of this pandemic.
Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo
If we can overcome the taboos surrounding HCTs, they can become a game changer in combating the coronavirus and limiting its ruinous effects on countless lives.
Why Have Britain’s Ethnic Minorities Been Hit Harder by COVID-19? It’s Hardly a Mystery
The public-health policies that are put in place in coming years will affect our ability to withstand the next pandemic.
Press Censorship Has Always Hurt Democracy. In the Age of COVID-19, It's Also Killing People
Freedom of the press is a fundamental human right and a key pillar of democracy.
PODCAST 88: Jonathan Kay on Covid Superspreaders
Listen onSpotify Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders.
Italy and the EU: The Hard and Stony Road Ahead
Now, both its political class and its people face a much harder road—a hard, narrow, and stony one, to end a dependence sapping both Italy and Europe.
COVID-19 Is Not the End of 'The End of History'
As COVID-19 suffocates the global economy, borders remain closed, and tensions mount between EU countries, the US and China, etc., Fukuyama’s critics are taking the opportunity to dismiss the “The End of History?” while ignoring its basic premises.
COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons
In the absence of any comprehensive database of COVID-19 superspreading events, I built my own.
COVID-19's Gender Gap
This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.
Long-Distance Love during Lockdown
Love, it turns out, remains an enduring mystery.
Viral Politics
The lockdowns have impacted different classes differently.