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For some years now there has been a flourishing debate between those who advocate for a more open-bordered world and those who want nations to have more powers to restrict border crossings. Sometimes these different sides are given names, such as “globalists” or “cosmopolitans,” on the one hand, and “statists” or “nationalists” on the other. […]
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In April 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump began to lash out at the World Health Organization, blaming it for what he claimed were missteps, failures, and prevarications in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. On April 14 he announced that U.S. funding for WHO would be frozen for 60-90 days while his administration conducted a […]
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In 1989, the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky addressed the eager graduands of Dartmouth College. It wasn’t your usual commencement speech: ‘If you find all this gloomy,’ he said of his remarks, ‘you don’t know what gloom is.’ Brodsky chose the occasion to forewarn the departing Dartmouth students that ‘I doubt you’ll have it better than […]
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“Not much,” might be one’s first reaction to this essay’s title question. Archaeologists are not exactly first responders. We are, if anything, last responders. And yet surprisingly, archaeology is not as odd a source of insights as it might seem. Archaeology offers a 3.5 million-year-long scientific record of human and earlier hominin problem-solving. As we […]
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One of the terrible ironies of life is that ethics blooms in times of disaster. With the corona virus sweeping through the world, bioethics has moved to center stage. In high-income countries such as Italy and Spain, tough decisions have had to be made about who gets what by way of medical care. In New […]
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The change from our lives BC (before coronavirus) to the lockdown most of us around the world are currently experiencing was dramatic and sudden. Many began working from home, often while also juggling the demands of home-schooling their children. Others went from working to not working at all. Yet others, essential workers, found their jobs […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic underscores an already-existing, more general tension in our current world-system. On the one hand, disease – like capital – is now fully globalised; it knows no boundaries, and ruthlessly weaves its way through networks of human interaction. On the other hand, the consequences of and solutions to the problems generated by the […]
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The first sight accosting me on May 9, 2020, as I turned to the news from India, was the image of rotis (flatbreads), some still aggregated in the thin piles in which they were being transported, lying helter-skelter on railway lines. 16 migrant workers had been mowed down by an empty goods train the previous […]
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