We’re Still Waiting for a Great Post-COVID Pandemic Novel Fiction writers are used to working in lonely isolation. Maybe that’s why the stories they’ve written about the pandemic seem so out of touch Neal Pollack 30 May 2022 · 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 · 14 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
Bunker Boy: Preparing for Apocalypse Since 1979 The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information. Ewan Morrison 9 Mar 2021 · 12 min read
In Defense of Shame In reducing sex to a basic mechanical function in the service of health, we have covered the uniquely human parts of ourselves that should be engaged during sex and lost precisely what makes sex sexy—what transforms its mechanics into mystery. Marilyn Simon 31 Jan 2021 · 10 min read
At One With the Disc: How the Pandemic Taught Me to Love (Real) Golf's Casual Cousin No, disc golf won’t provide you with high-impact interval training: It’s basically a wilderness stroll punctuated by a bunch of full-body throwing motions. Jonathan Kay 28 Jan 2021 · 9 min read
God and the Pandemic For many established religious institutions, the pandemic threatens to exacerbate an ongoing retreat from organized religion. Joel Kotkin 23 Dec 2020 · 11 min read
‘Things You Should Be Aware Of’: A Pandemic Prose Poem It’s more important to fight racism than to stop the spread of the disease. Stephen Elliott 22 Jun 2020 · 5 min read
Yes, People Are Dying. But It’s Still Okay to Worry About Your Job When people are dying horrible deaths in isolation from loved ones, and essential workers are putting themselves and their families at risk by going into danger zones, this isn’t the time to focus on how much we’ll “repay” young, healthy people who, though worried and unemployed, are safe at home. Dan Meegan 9 Apr 2020 · 7 min read
Symptoms of Loneliness When you care for others, when you don’t live alone—and most people don’t—the equation changes radically. Stephen Elliott 28 Mar 2020 · 6 min read
What’s Happening to Technological Progress? We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers. Hans Peter Dietz 21 Feb 2019 · 9 min read