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HarperVia, 380 pp. On January 31, I received a knock at the door of my Beijing apartment. It was the manager of lease renewals clutching a stack of flyers. “Mr. Zhang, you’re feeling well?” she asked, using my Chinese surname. “No fever yet.” She laughed—foreigners and their comments. “I know you don’t have the illness, but we want everyone to be safe. Here.” She handed me two copies of the flyer, one in Chinese and the other in English. They were written by the Beijing municipal government and offered practical tips on how to protect oneself from the coronavirus. It had be...

The High Price of Mistrust Reading Time: 10 minutes When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible. There are costs to falling community participation. Rather than simply lamenting the loss of a past golden era (as people have done in every era), Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam explains these costs, as well as how we might bring community participation back. First published twen...

Editorial: Impeachment for Trump; expulsion for enabler Cruz Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz: They’re the ones who perpetrated fraud.Associated Press file photo History will judge not only Wednesday’s disgraceful mob insurrection incited by an aggrieved and failed president but also our nation’s response to this assault on democracy. Those who stormed the Capitol must be held to account. So, too, must those who created the tinderbox conditions — through baseless lies about voter fraud — that allowed fire to be set to...

Two renowned social scientists have teamed up to filter modern-day America through the prism of 1895

Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Books for last-minute gifts Dec 22, 2020 | bookwormsez@yahoo.com Wild-eyed and panicked — you must’ve been a sight last year, two days before the holidays and with four final what-do-I-give presents to find. That’s when you stop, deep-breathe and find yourself a bookstore for these great last-minute gift ideas. Let’s start with the biography fan. You can’t go wrong with Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman, a biography on the movie star, his work and his life. Based on Grant’s own papers, this is a keeper. Also look for Barack Before Obama: L...