Part 4 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Imagine a town, besieged by an invisible alien invader—nobody has seen the invader, some doubt the invader even exists, but everyone knows that people keep dying.
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Goodbye “American Greatness”
Part 3 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Indispensable. Here was the so-called “indispensable nation,” the self-appointed saviour of the world, with generations of its leaders and thinkers thinking, speaking, and writing as if God had appointed “America” to lead the world.
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Globalization in the Widening Gyre of COVID-19
Part 2 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. It turns out that when people panic, they panic according to a template. Panic follows established routes, and is more structured than we might think, since we might think of it as being amorphous, uncontrolled, and chaotic.
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