He’s been on every side of every important question about containment, mitigation, and treatment of COVID-19. And he’s not alone.

Is the risk of death so high that we must imprison our children?

The House of 1814—like the House of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Civil War, and 9/11—continued to meet in person, conducting the business of those who elected them. In the shadow of their memory, the House of 2020 finds itself diminished.

While the Obama Administration focused on improving public health in developing countries, China continued developing so-called “dual use” capabilities, allowing them to disguise bioweapons research beneath the veil of biodefense work.

This test of wills between the Left’s pandemic policymakers and citizens is being waged to protect the administrative state’s credibility and authority to coerce you into serfdom.  

This is a brave new world for the uncontrolled and inexplicably self-confident forces of belligerent American secularism.

However much past policy decisions were taken in good faith, they must now be reversed for the sake of human life. To dodge political accountability by invoking science is not leadership, it is cowardice.

When the Covid-19 craziness subsides, our calcified zip-code education laws will endure.

It is clearly past time to rein in the baseless, arbitrary restrictions that have been imposed by some politicians, as they can only inspire disrespect and non-compliance.

The oversight of not separating statistics about long term care facilities from the totals has had enormous economic consequences.

We needed the common sense approach of a robust public debate about how to address the Wuhan virus.

What will your summer be like? Will it be dominated by fear, or by fun?

Continuing these measures going forward is unconscionable. We are depressed, demoralized, put upon, and now a poorer nation on account of our elites’ panic about the coronavirus.

Our world has indeed changed forever, but it needn’t be for the worse. It took a global pandemic, but we now have a clear framework for restoring American society.

The U.S. government appears prepared to do whatever it takes to stop COVID-19—but is it prepared to scrub the fallout?

To equate liberty with petulant incivility is a mistake. It cheapens liberty.

Relying on handouts to keep his companies afloat doesn’t make the Tesla founder a free-market champion—it makes him a leech who is beholden to the welfare state.