The Canadian wildfire is a reboot of Covid panic mode
They will only stop with the fearmongering when Americans start to ignore them
Quarantine
Friday
Thursday
Reading during a pandemic
There have always been brilliant books limited to small spaces and situations
Sunday
How’s ‘shutting down the virus’ going, Joe?
Travel bans and quarantines are suddenly back in vogue
Thursday
Donald McNeil described Americans as ‘selfish pigs’ in email to Fauci
The then-New York Times science writer compared us unfavorably to the average Chinese who ‘behaved incredibly heroically’
Wednesday
Homes, sweet homes
A few years ago, for reasons I can’t recall, I acquired a donkey hut in the Molise
Thursday
Killing time in Thailand
By Day 11, I understand why my windows are sealed shut and why I am not allowed knives
Sunday
Cooking for dad: real food is nothing fancy
Alison Roman’s tastes are like my father’s: particular, strident and requiring a capacious definition of the word ‘unfussy’
Tuesday
Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government
Americans want to do whatever they feel like doing: what else are natural rights for?
It’s gonna be a long day with myself
Why am I so hungry? Oh because it’s noon and I’ve been on Twitter for four hours
Tuesday
The changes to come in the post-COVID world order
In a few months, everything will be largely back to what it was within the United States. The big changes will be geopolitical
Monday
Why men don’t read books anymore
Lockdown has been more illustrative of the gender gap in reading than any event I can remember
Heads in the cloud
Life in the age of COVID-19 is connected but unconnected
Friday
Why Joe Biden’s America loves a lockdown
The divide between the professional and servant classes has never been more stark
Friday
Liberate…Michael Cohen?
He’s siding with the rebels who are painting the economic shutdown as a plot not just against America but preeminently Trump himself
Coronavirus lockdowns are cowardice
A life lost now to coronavirus is treated as more important than one lost indirectly as a result of our response
Thursday
Trump walks the recovery tightrope
Good cop, bad cop…then back to work?
Climbing the walls
A lockdown challenge in Sri Lanka
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
Thursday
Actually, it’s not ‘OK’
Spending weeks or months lazy and directionless is going to hurt, not help you
