In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Amesh Adalja, a well-known expert on pandemic preparedness, about the Omicron variant, the idea of “zero Covid,” and other issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the topics. . .

Months of statewide lockdowns across the country were meant in part to buy time to ramp up testing and contact tracing with regard to the spread of Covid-19. Now — amid an upsurge of cases in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and elsewhere — we still have. . .

Take a short break from the grim pandemic headlines, and let me share with you three bright spots. In April, this journal saw significant growth in the number of new readers, an increase of about 180 percent compared to the same period last year. . .

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and special guest Gregory Salmieri discuss recently published articles, secular and religious, that address the question of whether we can find meaning in the facts of suffering and death — facts the. . .

Suffering should not be seen as essential to life given the efficacy of human intelligence.

Shaming attacks seek to punish critics of the welfare state for advocating against such measures as the Paycheck Protection Program.