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  • Redefining Gender Roles One Quarantine at a Time

    Redefining Gender Roles One Quarantine at a Time0

    The coronavirus is going to send women back to the kitchen. At least that is what The Atlantic believes. Writer Helen Lewis argues that the pandemic is a “disaster for feminism.”  Lewis starts by noting, “A pandemic magnifies all existing inequalities.” That’s certainly true, but from there, she veers into the assertion that this particularly affects women.  Women, Lewis believes,

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  • WHO Reverses Course, Endorses Masks to Fight COVID-19

    WHO Reverses Course, Endorses Masks to Fight COVID-190

    The World Health Organization now supports the public wearing of masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus. That’s a reversal of its earlier position, reports the South China Morning Post: The World Health Organisation says it supports government initiatives that require or encourage the public wearing of masks, marking a major shift from previous advice amid

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  • Crying Over Dumped Milk

    Crying Over Dumped Milk0

    Frustrated shoppers have reason to cry over spilled milk. Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of the stuff. Meanwhile, some dairy products are sold out at many grocery stores across the country, due to intense demand for basic household goods amid the coronavirus crisis. USA Today reports on one farm in Wisconsin: “About 7

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  • Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe

    Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe0

    He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the journalist Daniel Defoe, author of “A Journal of a Plague Year.” When he died in 1731, he was mired in debt and hiding from

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  • C.S. Lewis on Avoiding the Prayers the Devil Likes

    C.S. Lewis on Avoiding the Prayers the Devil Likes0

    Holy Week 2019 started like no other with the horrific burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. Holy Week 2020 will be a bit less sensational than its predecessor, but nonetheless, different from anything we’ve ever seen. President Trump acknowledged this in his Palm Sunday coronavirus update, saying: “We may be apart… but we can use this

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  • China May Be Using COVID to Its Advantage

    China May Be Using COVID to Its Advantage0

    Can it be that after systematically lying to the world for months about the Wuhan coronavirus – about its existence, about its transmission, about its lethality – that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thinks it can turn this worldwide pandemic to its advantage? Yes. And here’s how. First, China has to rewrite its role in

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