Essays
Eaten alive
To celebrate the end of our local lockdown, I took my wife and two kids to dinner at Lupus, our [...]
Bonus points from The Man
The other day a CNN broadcaster stared at her audience and stopped midsentence: 90,000 Americans, she said with a sigh. [...]
Good-bye Analog Road
It's no surprise to me that the coronavirus is about to make the virtual side of digital life into the [...]
When talk isn’t cheap
One good thing should be said about President Donald J. Trump, and this comes from someone not remotely close to [...]
A hunchback named malaise
Italy has just begun the first phase of its coronavirus recovery plan. Factories are open. Citizens may visit local relatives. [...]
ERs where missile were
I have done a lot of thinking lately. Usually I lack the free time. Now free time is all time. [...]
All fired up
The state of Florida has issued death certificates for a family of four, missing since last week in what medical [...]
Lighting November’s matches
So far, the American response to the coronavirus has been anything but uniform, transforming the virus into an election issue, writes David Deropolous.
Hell no, we won’t stay
We wouldn't have stood for it. A week maybe, tops. We had no internet. We had no cable TV news. [...]
When weakness was not an option
Contributor David Deropolous formulates a Cold War-era fiction to place coronavirus decisions in 21st-century context.
Wash before looking
Based on a name applied to an infectious lung disease caused by a pandemic virus in the year 2020, Covid [...]
Healing a sick new world
Here is what many know but few can say aloud in an enlightened age that disavows bluntness: any resourceful virus, [...]