What Have We Learned During the Pandemic?
I do not particularly want to write a “pandemic, one year later” post, because like a lot of people, I’m sick of the pandemic, but I am big fan of reflection as a tool for learning, so I thought it may be instructive to look back and see what I had to say, how it holds up, what I’d revise, extend or even retract. My first thought, published March 12, 2020, was “We Could Really Use Our Institutions Right Now,” and it was rooted in a similar thought I had at the election of Donald Trump as president, that when an unpredictable and potentially chaotic force emerges, people will d...