Viral Politics
The lockdowns have impacted different classes differently.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Top Stories
A collection of 1224 posts
Lessons in Death and Life from the Diaries of Samuel Pepys
In Pepys’s time a scarlet cross on the door denoted an infected household and sentinels stood guard outside to keep people inside.
Colin Fleming
· 8 min read
Board-gaming in the Age of Isolation
In normal times, when we’re not all inside waiting out a pandemic, physical self-isolation can be both a symptom and cause of depression and alienation.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Rethinking Human Ecology in the Age of COVID-19: Lessons from a Fish Market
Twelve of the viruses that Geoghegan and her co-authors detected are potentially novel strains.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Searching for a COVID-19 Test in America
Most people were now wearing masks, and a few were obviously nervous about inadvertently drifting too close.
Diana Lambert
· 16 min read
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
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
For Gay Men Who Came of Age in the 1980s, a Grim Sense of Déja Vu
Surrounding all of these movements has been the metaphorical connection of disease with not only illness, but also impurity more generally—concepts that have obvious and horrifying linkages to racist political movements.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
Are Gamer Stereotypes Accurate?
An FBI investigation into the episode produced a heavily redacted report that satisfied no one.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 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
Farewell, My Lovely
Chinatown is a remarkable blend of screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski’s antipodal sensibilities.
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Will There Be a New Cold War with China? A Reply to Niall Ferguson
Americans have suddenly grown fearful of the growth of Chinese power.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory
Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read
Quillette's Quarantine Book Club: Readers Offer Their Suggestions, Part I
The series begins after the violence of the war to end all wars and ends in a time of strangely familiar contagion and spasmodic collapse.
Jonathan Kay
· 7 min read
Immigration and Inequality
For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet.
Christopher Caldwell
· 8 min read