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Classic first-order thinking: Don't want people getting together? Close parks, even if risk is tiny. But if people have nothing else, what will they do in place of going to

As a journalist, I came of age in the 9/11 era, when to be conservative and Republican was to talk of terrorism as nothing less than an "existential threat" and

Yet another trailer for yet another superhero movie -- Batman, this time -- was released today. It reminded me of a 1998 book, "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" about the movies

Reminds me of an article in The Atlantic in the early 20th century. Demography is destiny, it argued. The most fertile nations must dominate. And for that reason, it forecast

I agree with all of this (minus “misleading” — Wimbledon’s challenge was same in kind, though vastly easier). It’s an epic poem of a subject and I had space for

Thank you. I've been on this earth long enough that I've seen the "this changes everything!" drama play out at least half a dozen times. And a little digging in

Leaders understandably want to give the public good news now, whether saying it's under control, or it will soon be over, or the economy will roar back to life. This

This is what smart risk analysis and risk mitigation look like.https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1247933676874334208 More details here. Note that Wimbeldon got this right by scanning for the range of threats and collectively mitigating

A short thread about socialization -- and why we have to THINK about physical distancing.We are socialized from birth, taught what to say and do in various contexts. Socialization becomes

The argument that "original" Trumpians (like Steven Bannon) got this crisis right ignores a simpler explanation: The "original" Trumpians are (mostly) catastrophists with a taste for the apocalyptic and thus

Please remember: The idea that when disaster strikes people panic and social order collapses is very popular. It is also a myth. A huge research literature shows disaster makes people

In conversation with @iancapstick, I realized I badly overstated in a tweet this morning. So I’m going to delete that thread. And say what I should have said. A few