The United Nations in the fight against Covid
The nature of the global Covid pandemic cries out for a multilateral intergovernmental resolution. Yet so far nothing has been proposed. The World Health Organization... Read More
Areopagitica – freedom of debate and global Covid challenge
Seventeenth century British writer John Milton famously argued for freedom not just of speech but also of ideas and argument, as a means to find... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #10: a short history of plagues
This is the tenth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #9: what’s wrong with lockdown measures
This is the ninth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #8: the relentless contraction of the economy
This is the eighth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #7: Universal Basic Income
This is the seventh in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #4: Crime, War and Terror
This is the fourth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #2: Hospitality and Real Estate
This is the second in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #1: Transport
This is the first in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Pandemic and patronage
Our social retreat enables trust-based networks while further weakening faltering political institutions in the Balkans and elsewhere.
Unlocking Europe
Covid-19 is not nearly as deadly as the other pandemic diseases, such as the Spanish ‘flu or the Bubonic Plague, that have periodically swept the... Read More
Coronavirus and narcotics – geopolitical comparison
One way of stamping upon the scourge of drugs, and the deaths they cause, would be indefinitely to lock everyone in their homes so they... Read More
After the plague
The post-capitalist world that may await us, should we delay resurrection of our ordinarily functioning society, may not at all be to our liking. We... Read More
What questions should we be asking about the Coronavirus?
We need better data, and we need to test specific standardised communities to assess the true nature of the medical risk we face. Only then... Read More
