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Last night I finished reading @AlecMacGillis's book _Fulfillment_. Here are a few thoughts...Since I work in moral and political theory, I was inclined to read the book as a meditation

Yes EVERYONE can have vaccine takes because the communications from the federal government are something that WE ALL encounter. Also, *vaccination* is not the same thing as a *vaccine*. Vaccines

Excellent article by @zeynep on dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/It argues that pandemic is driven by superspreaders, and so what is required are

Story time! My 1st job was at Yale. I often taught Directed Studies, Yale’s great books course for elite humanities students. Big shot profs from other disciplines sometimes taught the

This is a tweet thread about rapid testing. It is meant to highlight something that most people, including most journalists and doctors, who are publicly skeptical about rapid tests seem

Here's a Covid-19 meets Occupy Wall Street thread, a thread about how spectacle is important for politics. It's a thread about how the state needed to *occupy* public spaces in