Moral Injury and the Battle against COVID-19
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become the public face of such anxiety disorders.
James Jeffrey
· 7 min read
Health
A collection of 168 posts
Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
Coleman Hughes
· 5 min read
Declining Med School Standards in a Time of Pandemic
The language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements at even the most elite schools.
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
COVID-19 and Liberalism
If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.
Kristijan Fidanovski
· 9 min read
Sickness and Stoicism
And if indeed “everything hangs on one’s thinking,” as he and his philosophical heirs frequently remind us, then this pandemic is just as much an opportunity as it is a curse.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 7 min read
Warehouse Work in an Age of Contagion
As regular readers of Quillette will know, I work at a warehouse in West Sacramento, California, where every workday I toil in close quarters with dozens of other employees. In the days before the advent of the novel coronavirus pandemic, that wasn’t a problem. Now, however, it’s a
Kevin Mims
· 6 min read
Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions
It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders.
Michael Shellenberger
· 3 min read
The Coming Age of Dispersion
New digital connections could incubate a new urban culture unlike any we have seen.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
The Complicated Science of a Medically Assisted Death
Physicians started to prepare families for the possibility of a delayed death.
Anita Hannig
· 12 min read
Dealing With a Once-In-A-Century Pathogen
Measures implemented too early are deemed “alarmist,” if implemented too late, “negligent.”
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
Masculinity, Emasculation, and Breast Cancer in Men
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.
Richard Wassersug
· 7 min read
Losing the Mandate of Heaven
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?
Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.
Brian Eaton
· 5 min read
Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs
Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.
Marcus Evans
· 19 min read
Gambling in a Time of Despair
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 9 min read