What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
The crisis mindset is a finite resource — and we’ve exhausted it. From Covid to climate change, we need a new way to manage chronic problems.
We cannot accept the same awful options when the next virus comes. Instead, let’s build our way out of the problem.
We let the precautionary principle run wild during Covid. We needed proportionality too.
As with 9/11, we cannot sustain crisis politics for years after a moment of unity passes.
Covid doesn’t care how hard we fight it — only about what works.
A letter from a student to Stanford Law School
