Given that this is my last post of the year — a year that, while it was not exactly stellar, was far better than 2020 — it seemed only natural to do a year-end list of some kind. But it doesn’t feel as if I read enough or saw enough…
By now, just about everyone recognizes that the shortages and the high prices of rapid at-home antigen tests, which I wrote about yesterday, is a problem. But one common mistake that people are making is to blame those shortages, and especially those high prices, on “capitalism.” If it weren’t for…
Getting tested for Covid is a social good. It only makes sense for governments to help pay for it.
The arrival of Omicron in the U.S. has meant that at-home rapid tests have become nearly as hard to find as a PS5. The tests sell out online at places like Walmart (which sells Abbott’s Binax test at the lowest price, $14 for a box of two, while most places…
The NFL is one of the biggest juggernauts in American culture. Madden helped make it that way.
That John Madden, who died yesterday at the age of 85, was enormously popular was easy to see while he was alive, and has been even easier to see now that he’s gone. But what may not be quite as obvious about Madden is that he was more than a…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for The Washington Post about the way vaccine skepticism feeds on innumeracy. I argued that the fact that so many Americans (so many people, in fact) find it difficult to do calculations that require more than one or two steps, and…
Videoconferencing has taken over the world. It might be time for the world to push back.
The long-term impact of the Covid pandemic on how people work remains very much an open question. But one undeniable consequence has been that the video call has become the default means of holding remote meetings or having conversations, even when only a couple of people are involved.
Zoom Technologies’…
Twitter’s new media policy will require it to decide when something is in ‘the public interest.’ Challenges abound.
Twitter is not so great at tweeting. That’s one obvious conclusion to draw from the hullabaloo that erupted today when the company tweeted a link to its new media policy, and described it in this way: “Beginning today, we will not allow the sharing of private media, such as images…
With the emergence of the new Omicron variant dominating the Covid headlines, it was easy to miss a seemingly small, but in its way consequential, shift in the CDC’s guidance with regard to booster shots: the agency now says that all vaccinated U.S. …
The University of Florida prohibited two of its professors from testifying in a voting rights case
Conservative thinkers talk a good game when it comes to the protection of free speech by institutions and the importance of academic freedom. But conservative politicians are a very different matter. As the recent battles over the teaching of what’s been broadly labeled critical race theory have shown, conservative politicians…
There’s good evidence from the U.K. that delaying the 2nd dose of vaccine boosts people’s immune responses. Should parents take that into account when vaccinating their kids?
Kids aged 5 to 11 could be getting vaccinated against Covid as early as Friday. The CDC’s advisory panel meets on Tuesday to…
