COVID-19 Science Update for March 29th: Keep Your Voice Down
This article constitutes the March 29th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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Denmark’s Weapons Against COVID-19: Early Action, High Trust—and a No-Nonsense Queen
It’s early spring in Denmark, a welcome relief after months of murky, rainy darkness. Even Copenhagen’s less-affluent districts are...
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Social Distancing During the Black Death
One of the comforts of studying history is that, no matter how bad things get, you can always find a moment in the past when things were...
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The Case for Economic Hibernation during the COVID-19 Lockdowns
The extreme social distancing measures required to arrest the spread of COVID-19, especially the lockdown and isolation, are presenting...
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Symptoms of Loneliness
I’m a corona believer. I began to panic about two weeks before everything shut down. By panic, I mean I stocked up on food and necessities...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 28th: Bergamo’s Decimation, More SSEs, and the Case for Masks
This article constitutes the March 28th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 27th: Super-Spreaders and the Need for New Prediction Models
This article constitutes the March 27th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections or...
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PODCAST 83: Professor Wilfred Reilly on his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About
Kentucky State political science professor Wildred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About....
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Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions
A new study by influential researchers at Imperial College, London finds that COVID-19 is more infectious and deadly than scientists had...
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COVID-19 Science Update for March 26th: Five Trends Shaping Medium-Term Policy
This article constitutes the March 26th, 2020 entry in the daily Quillette series COVID-19 UPDATES. Please report needed corrections to...
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Will COVID-19 Mark the End of European Liberalism?
Understandably, given its potential for large scale loss of life and severe economic disruption, coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic has so...
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COVID-19 Statistical and Science Update for March 25th
The latest global data for COVID-19—updated with reports received on March 25th, 2020—have been published at Our World in Data. Here are...
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The Coming Age of Dispersion
As of this writing, the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic remain uncertain. But one possible consequence is an acceleration of...
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No, COVID-19 Is Not a ‘Disaster for Feminism’
I wasn’t especially surprised to find an essay in the Atlantic calling the COVID-19 pandemic a “disaster for feminism.” But I am...
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Sanders’ Indifferent City on a Hill
In the months since the outbreak of a deadly global pandemic, Americans have rediscovered the world outside. None of the contenders vying...
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COVID-19 Statistical and Science Update for March 24
The latest global data for COVID-19—updated with reports received on March 24th, 2020—have been published at Our World in Data. Here are...
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Humanity’s Greatest Foe: Pandemics Through the Ages
A review of Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill, Anchor, 365 pages (1998) Readers seeking a longer historical perspective on the...
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COVID-19 Statistical and Science Update for March 23
The latest global data for COVID-19—updated with reports received on March 23rd, 2020—have been published at Our World in Data. Here are...
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‘Against Democracy’—A Review
A Review of Against Democracy by Jason Brennan. Princeton University Press (September 2016) 304 pages. Many voters can find democracy...
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That Elusive Feeling We Call Love
Every writer worth reading—from the good to the great to the canonical—has, at some point or other, explored the subject of love. Yet,...
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