Who will win the corona wars?
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
Coronavirus
Wednesday
DC coronavirus newsletters get assist from Big Pharma lobby
Didn’t they help get us into this mess?
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
What does evidence matter when you have a multi-million payments industry to promote?
What about flattening the unemployment curve?
Rampant unemployment at a level not seen since the Great Depression could spur other health issues, including alcoholism and depression
Tuesday
COVID in Colorado
People here are not acclimated to hunkering down when spring arrives, after months of hunkering down in winter
Lacking liquor in Northern Virginia
Even closing liquor stores temporarily is dovetailing into a minor if global trend towards prohibition
Sovereignty rules
The viruses-don’t-respect-borders slogan is dead wrong
Trump should shut down his press conferences, now
America needs ‘transparency’ from its government. It doesn’t need the daily Punch-and-Judy shows
Monday
Has Fauci become the James Comey of the scientific community?
Trump has sent a warning shot in the doctor’s direction
The thin facade of authority
Humility is key to learning, but it is found more easily from a wealth of diverse existential experiences on the margins
Sunday
This Easter, we should moderate our complacency
The pressure of contemporary events crowds us into the impatient confines of the present, rendering us insensible to the lessons of history
Didier Raoult — leader of the hydroxychloroquine cult
He could be right. Even if he isn’t, people will believe him
Friday
French Hill: Congress should conduct ‘full oversight’ of WHO funding
The WHO claimed in January the virus couldn’t be transmitted by human-to-human contact
Thursday
Actually, it’s not ‘OK’
Spending weeks or months lazy and directionless is going to hurt, not help you
The case for reopening the country now
Public health experts are well and good in their place. Their place is not running the country
Wednesday
Plagues at Passover
As the story of Passover and the Exodus shows, without faith we are nowhere, dependent on the arbitrary caprice of the market and the pharaoh
Trump’s safari into the wilderness of the deep state
He has been thirsting for revenge for months against the government officials who busted him for his attempt to muscle over Kiev for electoral benefit
Tuesday
Society needed this reset
Quarantine life has been, dare I say it, really nice, and I’m not the only one who thinks so
Perplexed by the Fauci fetish? You shouldn’t be
Behind the Fauci thirst
Monday
Why we love to hate celebrities
‘One World: Together at Home’ is a weirdly complacent name
