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Hygienic Fascism: Turning the World Into a ‘Safe Space’ — But at What Cost?

Even as we try to battle the COVID-19 pestilence, we may be contracting a more dangerous virus — hygienic fascism. This involves a process when our political leaders defer to a handful of “experts,” who impose highly draconian regulations based on certain assumptions about public health, without popular recourse.
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The differing impacts of COVID-19 across America

One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided by Pandemic

The last thing this divided Republic needs is more polarization, but America is now further divided by pandemic, in large part by the different experiences of various localities and in how economies function from region to region.
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The Pandemic Road to Serfdom

Even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, America, like most higher-income countries, was already heading toward a neo-feudal future: massive inequality, ever-greater concentrations of power, and increasingly widespread embrace of a uniform (albeit secular) religion.
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