Coronavirus Shutdown Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Sep 5, 2020

I’m back in the big city. I have been floating in fluids since March — swimming pool, sea, or beer — and my skin was beginning to wrinkle. I have to go back to work, which, in my case, being…

by | Aug 13, 2020

Our summer 2020 print magazine was going to be a reopening issue. Not an end-of-the-world issue. But then right before press time, three months of shutdown (and counting, in too many different places) took on a different coloring. Increasingly during…

by | Jul 15, 2020

Conservatives mostly consider the modern progressive a-wokening as irreligious, even immoral and atheistic. But the other side more than returns the compliment, believing conservatives morally and socially bigoted and corrupt. As the great historian Eric Voegelin tried to tell us…

by | Jun 16, 2020

I broke my ankle early in the coronavirus lockdown. So at least I’m locked down by something real; otherwise I think I’d go mad. I am astonished at how my fellow Americans — a good many of them, anyway —…

by | Jun 13, 2020

Ever since President Donald Trump issued his May Executive Order “Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery,” the permanent-government’s hometown Washington Post headlines and pages have been dominated by warnings about this threat to bureaucratic rule. The Post’s business is to…

by | Jun 9, 2020

Turns out the the lid on the COVID-19 shutdown was not very tight, undone by the events of May 25, 2020, concerning the actions of a police officer in Minneapolis that caused, before our very eyes, the death of George…

by | Jun 6, 2020

We reopened our building for public prayer on the holiday of Shavuot. We took a great deal of care in making our decision, drawing up our plan, and putting it into action. This festival commemorates the giving of the Torah,…

by | Jun 4, 2020

Sacramento The COVID-19 lockdowns are so yesterday now that U.S. cities have been overrun by rioters and looters, few of whom seem to be following social-distancing precautions (stay six feet away before you lob that Molotov cocktail). Before the news cycle rushes into yet…

by | Jun 2, 2020

After 10 weeks of lockdown and eight and a half weeks of declining case numbers, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday that Michigan’s coronavirus lockdown will come to an end.  Starting Thursday, people can walk into retail stores without first calling…

by | May 19, 2020

During the pandemic I’ve returned to my table saw, band saw, router, and even learned to use a sewing machine. This latter business was not of desire, but a matter of necessity. In late February, not knowing the full impact…

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