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Just a New York Problem?

Comparing Covid-19 to leading causes of death, state by state

by Ari Schulman, Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack

Prudence in a Storm

Restrained action in a crisis is no wiser than panic in normal times.

by Yuval Levin

Eat Me, Drink Me, Like Me

Is love in the attention economy unreal?

by Tara Isabella Burton

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What’s the Plan?

Yes, the Covid-19 shutdown is necessary — but it won’t work without a vision of how it ends.

by Ari Schulman

Save Lives, Ready Shovels

A six-point plan to end the Covid-19 crisis and prepare for recovery

by Ted Nordhaus

After Climate Despair

The dream of a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change. What comes next?

by Matt Frost

Stuart Isett

“A Coronavirus Winter”

Pandemic researcher Michael Osterholm on “mitigation fatigue” and the real purpose of testing

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Must Growth Doom the Planet?

In an age of stagnation, it’s time to shift how we think about the limits to growth.

by Ted Nordhaus

Reviving Expertise in a Populist Age

Wary of technocracy, a feckless Congress defers to executive bureaucrats.

by Zach Graves and M. Anthony Mills

Science Shaming, Debunking, and Sound Judgment

A note to our readers

Not Like the Flu, Not Like Car Crashes, Not Like...

by Ari Schulman, Brendan Foht, and Samuel Matlack

It’s about the spike.

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The Science Before the War

by M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

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I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine?

by Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, and Ari Schulman

Covid-19’s low death rate conceals bigger dangers.

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Audio article

Do Elephants Have Souls?

Listen to the classic 2013 essay by Caitrin Keiper.

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Battlefield Promotions

by Aaron Kheriaty

A call to action for medical students against the Covid-19 pandemic

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Enlightenment Later

by Kent Anhari

Will reason survive rationalism?

Trouble for Hedgehogs

by Michael M. Rosen

Are generalists due for a comeback?

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Custodians of the Body

by Alan Rubenstein

Our organ donation regime strikes the right balance between generosity to the living and respect for the dead.

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On the Monster Beat

by Clare Coffey

Why the civic needs the weird

Not as Deadly as We Thought?

by Brendan Foht

Why fighting about Covid-19’s fatality rate is a distraction

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Inventing the Universe

by David Kordahl

Are quantum physicists making things up as they go along?

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The Science Before the War

by M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

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The Mathematician and the Mystic

by David Guaspari

Simone Weil, her brother André, and truths that do not converge

Christopher Martin

The Impossible Ethics of Pandemic Triage

by Aaron Kheriaty

Is there a formula for which patients doctors try to save?

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Do We Want Dystopia?

by Stefan Beck

On nightmare tech as the fulfillment of warped desire

America’s Pandemic Data Gap

by Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, and Ari Schulman

The problem isn’t just testing — we still know far too little about what we already know.

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We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now

by Geoff Shullenberger

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

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