The Politics of the Pandemic
BERLIN — The asteroid has hit, and suddenly everything has changed. But the asteroid that has crashed into our planet is invisible.
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Category: April 2020
La stratégie économique va-t-elle réussir ?
PARIS — L’Insee estime que la chute d’activité économique induite par la crise sanitaire est aujourd’hui de 35% et que la baisse de la consommation des ménages est d’une ampleur comparable.
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In this moment of crisis, macho leaders are a weakness, not a strength
For the entirety of Ronald Reagan’s first term, despite overwhelming evidence that Aids was a public health crisis, he brushed off the disease’s severity, saying “it would go away”.
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The West’s Covid-19 Learning Curve
BERKELEY — Politicians sometimes belittle military leaders with the charge that they always fight the last war.
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Turkey’s refugee ‘extortion diplomacy’ must end
From the summer of 2015 until early 2016, the EU faced a massive influx of asylum seekers, most of them fleeing the conflict in Syria.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order
The surreal atmosphere of the Covid-19 pandemic calls to mind how I felt as a young man in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge.
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The Euro-Bond is a blunt weapon
The frustration of most Southern Europeans at the reluctance of most of their Northern partners to aquiesse to the introduction of “Euro-bonds” as a means for their economies to cope with the consequences of the pandemic, is understandable.
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