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Will We Know If Our Precautions Kept Coronavirus at Bay? Here’s One Simple Test 0
- Culture
- March 19, 2020
Last week I published an article about the novel coronavirus, my ignorance, and my wonder at the fear and panic that have ensued. “There,” I thought, mentally dusting off my hands. “That’s it. No more coronavirus articles for me.” Then came Friday and my daily trip into my hometown of Front Royal, Virginia. First up on the
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How to Make Presidential Debates Serve Voters, Not Candidates 0
- Politics
- March 19, 2020
Presidential debates are not debates at all. They provide candidates with opportunities to deliver their own pre-scripted messages, largely unchallenged. Ideally, presidential debate scholars agree, these events should help voters identify which candidate they agree with most on key issues, and, as other academic debate coaches put it, see how a candidate would “make decisions,
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Why Germany’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is So Low 0
- Culture
- March 19, 2020
As major news outlets like the New York Times have updated the number of cases of COVID-19 and confirmed deaths from it, a new trend has emerged: the death rate, measured as the number of deaths divided by the number of cases, is falling. Six days ago, on March 12th, there were 36 deaths caused by the virus in the
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Covid-19: Just the Facts 0
- Economics
- March 19, 2020
Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some crucial facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes that “this is an emerging, rapidly evolving
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A Few Activities to Survive Social Distancing 0
- Culture
- March 18, 2020
You’ve been through this kind of thing before. Pouring rain or driving snowstorms drive all the kids inside, and you really aren’t in the mood to go anywhere else. Thus arises the problem of keeping the kids entertained while still maintaining your own sanity and keeping the peace. Usually though, such a scenario only lasts
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The Revival of Socialism 0
- Culture
- March 18, 2020
I am fiercely proud of the fact that I was raised in an anti-communist household in central Kansas in the 1970s and 1980s. Whatever faults my family had (and they were many), my mother made sure that I knew that socialism and fascism were flip sides of the same coin, that Hitler and Stalin had
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