Tag Archive for: "coronavirus"
Remember the seasonal flu? 

You might not consider disease to be a national security issue, but that depends on how you define national security. A ‘disease’, by the way, is a disorder of structure or function in a human, …

India’s Covid-19 tsunami

It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them. Just two months ago, after India rushed millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines to over 60 countries, I praised the country’s …

‘Super Mario’ smashes populists

When the world shut down last year due to Covid-19, collective attention turned to the experts. Despite 10 years of fears from political scientists and newspaper columnists about the ‘rise’ or ‘dominance’ of populism at …

Europe’s complacency trap

Covid-19 has wounded almost every developed country, but the truth is that living standards in many of them had been stagnating or declining for years. Many metrics highlight this trend, but perhaps the most telling …