JOURNALISM
Get Ready to Live With Covid’s Hassles Forever
Just as with airline security after 9/11, many "temporary" pandemic regulations are with us to stay.
Speech on the beginning of the academic year | Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest
The American mind risks not merely being coddled; it risks becoming captive. I urge you all not to allow the Hungarian mind to suffer the same fate.
Populism Isn’t Deadly
For liberal journalists and editors who already had an aversion to populist leaders, the temptation to pin the blame on them for last year’s high excess mortality has been irresistible.
Politics in the Time of Corona
Latin American leaders on the right and left have not fared well against Covid. In other ways, too, the U.S. is increasingly resembling its neighbors to the south.
How a Brainiac and a Villain Became Covid Heroes
Audrey Tang empowered Taiwan’s citizens. Dominic Cummings lost out to British bureaucracy.
Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness?
Even as the great and the good mingled in Davos, a deadly and highly contagious novel coronavirus was rapidly spreading around the world.
The Next Global Disaster Is on Its Way, and We Aren’t Ready
A major lesson of Covid-19 is that there is no distinction between natural and man-made catastrophes.
How a More Resilient America Beat a Midcentury Pandemic
In 1957, the U.S. rose to the challenge of the ‘Asian flu’ with stoicism and a high tolerance for risk, offering a stark contrast with today’s approach to Covid-19.
To Save the U.K. Give Scottish Nationalists the Canada Treatment
Take it from a Scot abroad: We don't need another referendum.