(A response to Chris Trotter’s “Ruins of the White House’s East Wing symbolise the passing of an old order and the arrival of a new one“) Chris, this is some world-class melodrama. We’re talking about replacing a set of bland 1940s office spaces with a privately funded ballroom, not detonating the Constitution. Presidents have been knocking […]
Don’t let COVID-19 dominate your life
President Trump’s tweets are far too often boneheaded, unhelpful and immediately forgettable. However, what he wrote following his discharge from Walter Reed was notable: It may have been better to have also said, “Take COVID-19 seriously”, but “Don’t let it dominate your life” is the same sort of argument many others, myself included, have been […]
New England Journal of Medicine embarrasses itself
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine signed by 35 editors is a thinly veiled attempt by the authors to call for President Donald Trump to be voted out of office for what they call his “dangerously incompetent” handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Especially coming from scientists, a standard of “dangerously incompetent” is […]