Opinion This pandemic will reshape the social landscape – it’s just too soon to say how John Ibbitson Globe & Mail March 30, 2020 Open this photo in gallery During these weeks of social distancing, well-educated white-collar professionals work from home, their incomes secure while they tweet about the challenge of holding a virtual […]
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PANDEMIC OF NEGLECT: U.S. Health Care System Has Failed
Pandemic of Neglect: How U.S. health care failed to heed repeated warnings of supply shortages More than a dozen government reports dating to the 1990s warned of the sort of medical supply shortages now being experienced in the coronavirus pandemic By Christine Dolan RealClearPolitics March 30, 2020 As the Bush administration entered its final months […]
CAN THE NEWS BUSINESS SURVIVE THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS?
by Michael Luo The New Yorker March 30, 2020 In 2009, as the economy struggled to rebound from the Great Recession, executives at the New York Times found themselves in a vigorous internal debate. They were trying to decide whether their content should go behind a paywall, making it available only to paying subscribers. […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #96 — CORONAVIRUS CACOPHONY, Interviews with Craig Thiel of Citizens Research Council & David Guenthner of the Mackinac Center
PODCAST: Miraculous Marathons/Boccaccio Braggadocio
3/27/20 The Friday Morning Podcast casts aside the clouds of Coronavirus for a retrospective on the spectacular long distance racing career of someone who just completed her 50th marathon in all 50 U.S. States. She was accompanied on almost all of them by her husband, Dennis, who actually got out and ran a few half-marathons, […]
CANDIDATES BARRED FROM BALLOT BY CORONAVIRUS — UNLESS THE LEGISLATURE ACTS
LANSING, STATE CAPITOL: Another unintended consequence of Coronavirus, and nobody is paying attention. Surely, there must be a bill in the legislative hopper to allow candidates for Congress and the judiciary to qualify to run this year by paying a filing fee instead of collecting signatures, right? If not, somebody must have tipped off some […]
CORONAVIRUS: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON
Hot Take With coronavirus mask and ventilator shortages, Americans in March 2020 can learn from March 1776 George Washington was lacking a different resource — firepower — in the Revolutionary War, and the story of how he secured it can offer us inspiration. Henry Knox arrives on horseback with artillery during the Revolutionary War in […]
CHINA’S EXPULSION OF U.S. REPORTERS MAY BACKFIRE
China Will Miss American Reporters When They’re Gone The Foreign Press Is Essential to Beijing’s Accountability—and the Country’s Success By John Pomfret FOREIGN AFFAIRS March 20, 2020 China’s expulsion of more than a dozen American journalists is being heralded as another step toward a new Cold War. Chinese officials are crowing about sovereignty; the expulsions, by […]
HAS CORONAVIRUS ALREADY PEAKED? MEDIA HAVE NO IDEA
IF THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL — WHERE INCOMPLETE DATA AND MEDIA-FUELED PANIC RULE THE DAY — THAT IS AN EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING PROSPECT THAN WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW By Julie Kelly “Dangerous Curves” March 19, 2020 If you weren’t very ill in late January or February, you probably know someone who was. The complaints […]
CORONAVIRUS: DID LINCOLN HAVE AN ANSWER FOR US?
COPING WITH THE PANDEMIC: LINCOLN AND THE WISDOM OF THE AGES By Carl M. Cannon Real Clear Politics March 20, 2020 Yesterday, a friend and I were commiserating (digitally, of course) about the uncertainty — and, in some places, misery — of the virus pandemic sweeping the world. He quoted one of the most famous […]