Last Thursday, Israel’s government extended its travel ban on all foreigners entering the country over fears surrounding the Omicron coronavirus variant. This ruling, which expires on December 22, follows months of Israel mandating some of the most stringent global travel…
I do not yearn for a virgin nature, a nature without the peasant’s ennobling footprint and without the palace crowning the hill. But rather a nature safe from plebeian industrialism and irreverent manipulation. – Nicolás Gómez Dávila In his 1877…
In a way, writing is the most important part of my day job. That may sound odd to people who know me, given that I went to medical school and became a pathologist. For those not terribly familiar with my…
While the United States dealt with yet another night of violent rioting in response to a police shooting in Minnesota, riots were also occurring in Montreal, for a different reason. Montreal is no stranger to turmoil and rioting, but Sunday’s…
Last week, White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx announced that she would retire, citing fallout from her being caught violating her own advice on Thanksgiving gatherings during COVID-19. But was she the only pol to get caught up in…
As one who “seeks not to divide, but to unify,” Joe Biden intoned, “It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, to lower the temperature, to see each other again, to listen to each other again. To make progress, we…
Outbreaks of the coronavirus have arisen at reopened colleges, prompting some schools to abandon reopening and others, like the University of Notre Dame, to forge on in the face of rapidly rising case numbers. Eighty-nine coronavirus cases were reported in…