Contributor David Deropolous formulates a Cold War-era fiction to place coronavirus decisions in 21st-century context.
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Wash before looking
Based on a name applied to an infectious lung disease caused by a pandemic virus in the year 2020, Covid [...]

Getting what you need
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. • U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell [...]

With Underwood aforethought
A not especially subtle American president made a very shrewd move the other day. Breaking from his immoveable optimism about [...]

An Eastertime dirge
The meaning of life is that it ends. • Franz Kafka, dead of tuberculosis at age 40. It is the [...]