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[Arvind Subramanian] The threat of enfeebled great powers

May 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis augurs three watersheds: the end of Europe’s integration project, the end of a united, functional America, and the end of the implicit social compact between the Chinese state and...
[Pankaj Mishra] The phony war on the coronavirus

May 11, 2020

Governments around the world say they’re engaged in a war against the coronavirus. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked the legend of the Mahabharata, fought over 18 days, as he declared, with...
[Robert J. Fouser] Learning from Korea’s response to COVID-19

May 8, 2020

The first week of May in South Korea saw the nation come to life as fears of COVID-19 subsided. People took advantage of a series of holidays to go out and enjoy the spring weather. On May 6th, the ...
[Serendipity] Time to think about end-of-life care

May 8, 2020

Today is Parents’ Day. In any other year, the day would be celebrated with family dinners, bouquets of red carnations, presents and cash gifts. This year, however, the government is asking people to ...
[Noah Smith] Reason to protect workers from COVID-19

May 7, 2020

Harvard economist Melissa Dell recently won the 2020 John Bates Clark medal, which is given to outstanding economists younger than 40. Dell’s most famous research concerns the importance of instituti...
[Kim Myong-sik] Defector lawmakers stand for free democratic system

May 7, 2020

North Korean defectors Thae Yong-ho and Ji Seong-ho have got off to an uneasy start as freshmen lawmakers of South Korea, facing opposition from their liberal counterparts for inaccurate presumptions...
[Kim Seong-kon] ‘Designated Survivor’ and the great leader

May 6, 2020

Recently on Netflix, I came across an American political thriller drama entitled “Designated Survivor.” The riveting drama mesmerized me instantly by tackling the recurrent theme in American films an...
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Building a post-pandemic world

May 5, 2020

Die-hard green militants regard it as obvious: The COVID-19 crisis only strengthens the urgent need for climate action. But die-hard industrialists are equally convinced: There should be no higher pr...
[Lionel Laurent] No, Sweden isn’t a miracle coronavirus model

May 4, 2020

The World Health Organization has been generous with its praise throughout this pandemic. China, Singapore and Ireland have all received plaudits for their handling of the coronavirus crisis. Now tha...
[Doyle Mcmanus] Pandemic makes the world more dangerous

May 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 202,000 lives and thrown the global economy into chaos. It’s making the world more dangerous, too. In the Middle East, Iranian gunboats have harassed U...
[Kim Myoung-hee] How South Korea stopped COVID-19 early

May 2, 2020

South Korea experienced one of the world’s largest initial outbreaks of COVID-19 outside China. But unlike the United States and many European countries, we have been able to contain and drastically ...
[Digital Simplicity] Misguided notion of sharing content hurts authors

May 1, 2020

Children’s books, especially those with lots of illustrations, are generally short in length. Despite this, the genre offers a treasure trove of creative imagination and wonderful pictures. Sadly, s...
[Adam Minter] Children silent victims of coronavirus

May 1, 2020

Many parents felt a profound sense of relief when analyses of the coronavirus found that kids rarely show symptoms and usually aren’t at much risk. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean they’re safe from...
[James Rosen] Coronavirus doing what Cold War never could

Apr 30, 2020

Turns out, President Donald Trump’s supporters were right when they denounced his most fervent critics’ over-the-top comparisons of him to Hitler. Maybe the more apt comparison is to longtime former ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Why have I become modernist again despite its faults?

Apr 29, 2020

I was a modernist when I wrote my MA thesis on literary modernism. Later, however, when I decided to write my doctoral dissertation on postmodernism at the State University of New York at Buffalo, I ...