The Covid Reckoning Is One-Sided

The Left's Imaginary Covid 'Reckoning'

Even when conservatives are right, they’re right in the wrong way, liberals appear to be saying.

The Education Exchange: Reckoning with the Failures of the Covid Era

The Education Exchange · Ep. 386 – March 31, 2025 – Reckoning with the Failures of the Covid Era Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Macedo’s new book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us, co-written with Frances Lee. Follow The Education Exchange on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or h…

The Covid Reckoning Is One-Sided

Jonathan Chait: “The recent fifth anniversary of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic put the difference between the contemporary right and left on stark display. Liberals have engaged in searching self-reflection—on school closings, the lab-leak hypothesis, the political aftereffects, and other unanticipated lessons.” “Conservatives have used the occasion to engage in a round of self-congratulations and taunting of the libs.”

Letter: The untold impact of the COVID response

The recent articles in this paper regarding COVID and the public health response neglected some lessons. The First Amendment to our Constitution is unambiguous: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” This was adop…