Healthcare
Social distance warriors
Snitching? There’s an app for that. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio recently took to the airwaves to announce that responsible citizens could turn state’s witness in…
April 28, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
An Ovid for the age of COVID
The dim protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s postwar novel Scott-King’s Modern Europe teaches classics at a British boy’s school. Inside the classroom, he slogs through Xenophon and Sallust.…
Magazine - Your Land
Hollywood, keep your shirt on
Normal might look different for a while, even in Hollywood. The coronavirus pandemic will affect our society for a long while yet, especially when it comes to…
Magazine - Features
The China reversal
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was probably the most effective foreign propaganda campaign of any country since the end of the Cold War. The timing couldn’t…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Park life
One of New York City’s few recent architectural triumphs doesn’t have a star architect associated with it — or any architect for that matter. It’s located in…
Economy
AEI President Robert Doar on the optimal way to handle poverty post-pandemic
The coronavirus economic shutdown has taken its toll on businesses and workers all over the country, but those at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder have…
Healthcare
Legislation provides coronavirus ‘hazard pay’ for essential workers
Workers deemed essential in the pandemic, such as grocery store clerks and transit workers, deserve an income boost, Democrats say. Senate Democrats in early April proposed a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Wild West
HBO’s Westworld is, with apologies to Dr. Johnson, like watching MIT’s Mini Cheetah robot do a backflip: It is not done well, but you are surprised to…
Economy
Coronavirus debt will kill the Left’s policy dreams
The coronavirus has disrupted the economy so much that it convinced Republicans, even the most conservative ones, to support a $2.2 trillion relief package. This support is…