Many of my friends are musicians. Life’s a funny thing. Most have taken advantage of this claustrophobic pandemic to write too many songs. I have done so myself, remembering the good old days when I had a band called Los…
The narrative on COVID-19 is set: lockdown forever despite the evidence, stay inside and isolate no matter how anti-scientific and arbitrary the public health guidelines may be, and definitely do not ask why you have to do anything you are…
This morning I went for a walk by the sea. You were still sleeping. It is the paradox of writing on this side of the ocean. There were a bunch of seagulls pitifully fighting, pecking over the garbage, and for…
One year into this pandemic, we are seeing signs of hope that life will return to normal sometime this year. States across the country are relaxing COVID restrictions. This is drawing criticism from some, including President Biden, calling such moves…
A lot has been said about the harm to people resulting from government lockdowns imposed in the name of fighting COVID-19. Lockdowns, however, aren’t the only misguided policies that we’ve had and continue to endure because of this pandemic. In…
Stocks have surged, not despite coronavirus but because of government responses to it. While many paint these stock gains as amoral reactions, they are rather straightforward market responses to government actions that have spiked national saving but limited its use….
There should be no doubt that the People’s Republic of China is the leading geostrategic adversary of the West, in both economic and military terms. President Biden, who is no stranger to matters Chinese, and his administration must recognize that…
I have to work hard to hide that I’m happy about the presidential election. A journalist is a guy who is happy about things that make other people cry. It’s not that we enjoy bombs; it’s just that we love…
One of the most common, if perhaps overdone, media talking points during COVID-19 has been laying out the supposed parallels to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that occurred just over a century ago. Regardless of how one feels about this…