‘We are told that “we’re in this together” by people who can afford to wait out the epidemic in the way the aristocrats of old retreated to their estates when the plague arrived in the city. It is more accurate to say that we are, as this edition’s cover puts it, “together, alone”.’
What I respected about the people in Baidoa was that every famine victim who died was an individual
I hoped my flight would be canceled but we left right on time
The conspiracy theory right is addicted to crazy ideas about a drug
By and large, the world’s most powerful and most expensive military establishment is not proving terribly relevant
Politics May 1, 2020
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Europe May 1, 2020
The British have bought the lockdown hook, line and non-thinker
Spectator Editorial May 1, 2020
The Trump administration’s $1,200 subvention to citizens is a drop in the swelling ocean of debt
Politics May 1, 2020
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
Politics May 1, 2020
The viruses-don’t-respect-borders slogan is dead wrong