In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
Two Princeton political scientists on how institutions, expert bodies and the press handled the pandemic, and what it cost when deference replaced deliberation.
Macedo and Lee examine how democratic institutions, expert bodies and the press handled the pandemic, and where deference quietly replaced deliberation. The argument is about process rather than epidemiology: what it cost to treat disagreement as danger, and how much of the eventual backlash was earned by the manner of the decisions rather than their content.
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Tyler Cowen
A reasonable, evidence-based, non-crazy account of governance failures and excesses during the Covid crisis. For me there was not so much new here, but I am glad to see saner voices moving into the discourse.
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