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Weathering the Aftershocks of the Pandemic 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2020
Early one morning in mid-May I was drinking a cup of coffee on the front porch of my daughter’s house in Front Royal, Virginia. For weeks I had felt drained of energy, filled not with boredom but with lassitude, putting off cleaning my basement apartment, the books I needed to read for review, a magazine
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The Common Sense Alternative to Fauciism 0
- Politics
- May 26, 2020
I have recently sought treatment recommendations from three different dentists for a problem I’m having. Two dentists, both well-known and respected by me, gave me diametrically opposed recommendations. My wife urged me to see the dentist who had helped her with a tricky problem for a third opinion. The third opinion contradicted the other two.
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Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To 0
- Economics
- May 22, 2020
Severe shortages of critical medical supplies have prompted governments to compel private companies to fill the gap. In the U.S., President Donald Trump invoked rarely used powers to force General Motors to make ventilators, while the leaders of France, the U.K. and Japan have put pressure on companies to make more medical supplies. But, judging
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Why COVID-19 Models Aren’t Real Science 0
- Politics
- May 22, 2020
Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Americans have been told countless times that public policy was based on Science (with a capital S) and that the public should just obey the scientists. But the accuracy of their predictions and the consequent appropriateness of policies seems to have been little better than Ask Dr. Science
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Fighting Back in Our Age of Deceit 0
- Culture
- May 22, 2020
Let’s face it – no one likes being caught in a lie. The husband who says he has to work late, is entangled with his secretary, and gets caught; the kid who tells his parents he’s going to study with a friend and winds up drunk and arrested: getting snared in a fabrication is never
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CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing 0
- Education
- May 22, 2020
When schools reopen in the U.S. amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they will be even more restrictive than they already were. Schools have long controlled students’ movements and imposed constraints on where they can go, when, and with whom. With virus concerns, those controls will increase in quantity and intensity. NPR recently proclaimed that “disruption
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