Roundup Top Ten for March 27, 2020
We’ve Never Been Here Beforeby Adam ToozeThere are historical analogies to this kind of collective shutdown, but they are not attractive. |
Women Also Know Washingtonby Lindsay ChervinskyThe last decade has witnessed a noticeable uptick of works on Washington authored by women, with more to come in the pipeline. |
The History of Asian American Discrimination in Public Healthby Stanley ThangarajThe popularity of various pseudo-scientific, ad hoc religious, and other problematic discourses about the coronavirus are jeopardizing national and global health. |
What Our Contagion Fables Are Really Aboutby Jill LeporeIn the literature of pestilence, the greatest threat isn’t the loss of human life but the loss of what makes us human. |
Dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy Has Left Us All Vulnerable to COVID-19by Teal Arcadi and Casey EilbertDecades of deriding bureaucrats and cuts have undermined government capacity to serve us when we need it most. |
Babe Ruth's New York @ 100by Jonathan GoldmanWhen Babe Ruth started hitting home runs, the US started to change. |
Hospice of the Creative Classby Alex Sayf CummingsNo event has so starkly revealed the brutal inequalities of contemporary capitalism as the coronavirus pandemic. |
It Doesn’t Have to Be a Warby Tim BarkerThe Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks. What if we didn’t have to resort to the analog of war? |
Joking in the Time of Pandemic: The 1889–92 Flu and 2020 COVID-19by Kristin BrigAs we see with COVID-19, the darkest periods in history expose the best—and worst—of humanity. |
Assimilationists of a Featherby Elliot Friar and Travis LaCouterIf the history of gay liberation has taught us anything, it’s that assimilationism is one hell of a drug. |