Gabrielle Bauer

The WHO’s funding arrangements, track record, and perverse nature of its pandemic response should be enough to render these proposals anathema

The dedicated international bureaucracy will have a powerful vested interest in ongoing climate crises and serially repeating pandemics.

The demotion of freedom—that noble ideal of liberal democracy—into a laughingstock (“muh freedumb”) was painful to witness. How did it happen? One authors explains.

These are data-dependent and data-agnostic arguments. While data-dependent arguments have their place, they rest on shaky ground.

Using strategies found in nature to find analogies for complex political and cultural organizational strategies has merit.

It’s Not Really About the Data

Bragman may feel he revealed my true colors as some sort of monster parent who believes in exposing children to life-threatening danger.

One moment, you’re waving to a longtime neighbor. The next, the neighbor is calling the police because you are violating the lockdown.

The book takes the position—shared by many scientists, as it turns out—that managing a pandemic is not just about containing a virus, but about steering the human family through a societal upheaval.

Covid media, like so much else in modern life, has become hopelessly fractured: the tall, left-facing trees dominate the landscape, telling the story of a deadly virus that we “did the best we could” to manage. Below the tree canopy lies the tangle of weeds that sway in the wind, whispering songs of freedom and warning against the totalitarian impulses that all too readily emerge during crises. While I'll continue to throw my essays at those unyielding trees, the messy underbrush is where I've found my journalistic home.