Why America’s Response to Coronavirus Adds Disaster to Catastrophe America’s response to Coronavirus has been, in a word, disastrous. It adds disaster to the catastrophe of a new global pandemic. If you’ve thought something like the above, you’re exactly right. And yet because the media is doing a fairly poor job of explaining just why, … Continue reading The (New) Great Depression – Why America’s Response to Coronavirus Adds Disaster to Catastrophe →

The United States and other liberal democracies are decentralized — the process of decision-making is distributed among multiple actors. The most important of these is the federal government, but many crucial functions are delegated to state and local authorities. Indeed, in America, authority over public health is largely in the hands of states and cities. Donald … Continue reading China’s Response to the Coronavirus Doesn’t Prove Its System Is Superior →

Even before the Black Death, aka the plague, Europe had fallen on tough times: The 14th century began with a mini ice age and torrential rain, ruining crops and spreading starvation among tens of millions of serfs working hereditary land for nobles in a centuries-old feudal system overseen by the pope. Then came the plague, … Continue reading How the Black Death Radically Changed the Course of History – And what that can teach us about the coronavirus’ potential to do the same →

America has its flaws. Countless books examine them, but they often conclude their grim analyses with a chapter on “how to make things better.” Rarely is the feasibility of these proposed solutions considered. What if the flaws in our principal institutions, from Capitol Hill to the National Security apparatus to the Federal Reserve, are unfixable? … Continue reading All empires fall. The American One Is Already Well Into Its Terminal Phase →

COVID-19 has the advantages of simple math, human overconfidence and Mother Nature’s lack of empathy On Aug. 27, 1918, two sailors at a pier in Boston came down with Spanish Flu. They were the first people in the United States to be stricken by the virus. Within a week, 100 sailors at the pier were … Continue reading Frightening Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic and Why History May Repeat →

Most people do not have a criminal mind and the thought that a government would use germs and viruses as a military weapon is unconscionable. Biological warfare is nothing new and has been practiced for centuries. Besieging armies launched infected bodies over the walls to weaken the defenders and decimate their numbers. With the invention … Continue reading Coronavirus Exposed: Biological Warfare Is Nothing New And A Choice Weapon To Defeat Another Nation In An Undeclared War →