One aspect of post-pandemic analysis that sets my hair on fire is the folklore that in the early stages of the Covid outbreak, health experts were “trying to explain the latest public health advice to a frightened public even as…
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been on a whirlwind media tour over the past week. He has hit CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, CNN, and more since the release of his new book, So Help Me…
It’s been a long week. Let’s just get this started. 1. AWFUL America is, in fact, awful. It’s not just an adjective anymore; it’s now an acronym. AWFUL is actually a repair job on another acronym you might already know…
There’s a new book out that most readers of this column won’t bother to pick up. And no, I’m certainly not talking about my new book, The Revivalist Manifesto, which many of you have already ordered (the publisher tells me…
On Monday, in response to a pair of media appearances by Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, two prominent members of the White House coronavirus task force who criticized the former president, Donald Trump lit the public health experts up…
Washington I have for most of my adult life been a practicing hypochondriac. So, it will come as no surprise to you to hear that I am a zealous reader of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). I…
Two reckonings are due on the Wuhan virus, and both should begin soon. Let’s call these two reckonings the Foreign Reckoning and the Domestic Reckoning, because our current national crisis of an imprisoned and dying economy has dual sources. The…
Two weeks ago, Dr. Deborah Birx warned against doomsday predictions that millions of Americans might die from coronavirus. At a White House press briefing on March 25, the coordinator of President Trump’s task force condemned media speculation based on claims…
Last week, hundreds of Iranians reportedly died from drinking methanol — industrial alcohol — believing it was a cure for the coronavirus. Iran’s experience is just another aspect of the panic over the coronavirus pandemic gripping many people and nations….
