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‘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”.’
When money dies
$1,200 isn’t going to stretch very far for workers who have lost their jobs, or even for those still employed
From the Magazine
A strong constitution
It is a cherished axiom of the psychological class that the human psyche is almost infinitely sensitive and delicate
From the Magazine
Him too: is Alec Klein a predator — or a victim?
An unwanted shoulder rub is a bit sleazy but it hardly places a man beyond redemption
By Amber Duke
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Africa’s invisible epidemics
What I respected about the people in Baidoa was that every famine victim who died was an individual
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Is there any better place for an EU-subsidized arts festival than Galway?
I hoped my flight would be canceled but we left right on time
By William Cook
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Fear and adrenochrome
The conspiracy theory right is addicted to crazy ideas about a drug
By Ben Sixsmith
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Will American exceptionalism survive the pandemic?
By and large, the world’s most powerful and most expensive military establishment is not proving terribly relevant
From the Magazine
There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
From the Magazine
Whatever happened to dissent?
The British have bought the lockdown hook, line and non-thinker
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After the lockdown, the breakdown
The Trump administration’s $1,200 subvention to citizens is a drop in the swelling ocean of debt
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Who will win the corona wars?
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
From the Magazine
