Post Tagged 'COVID pandemic'

November 19, 2025

COVID and the Craving for Certainty

In March of 2020, I published an essay warning both the public and our policymakers against overreacting to the COVID threat. We overreact, I argued, in times of “epistemic uncertainty,” when we do not know enough about a threat we face and are unclear about our best response. Continue Reading...

September 24, 2025

Cycles of Censorship in a Nation of Speech

Debates about Charlie Kirk’s work and legacy inevitably involve the issue of free speech. Both supporters and opponents of Kirk would probably agree that he devoted his life to bringing conservative ideas into institutions that had been relatively isolated from or hostile to such ideas. Continue Reading...