Presidents sworn in during crises are popular at first. But unforeseen events can soon change that.

‘To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,’ George Orwell famously observed. He was talking not about everyday life but about politics, where it is ‘quite easy for the part to be greater than the whole or for two objects to be in the same place simultaneously’.

Major pandemics often coincide with religious or political contagions. In his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” Thucydides records how, during the plague that devastated Athens between 430 and 426 BC, people seemed to lose their moral compasses.

How Bruckner, Scott, “Doctor Who” — and tea — helped this columnist survive the pandemic.

Economists see a free lunch in fiscal stimulus, but that depends on low post-pandemic interest rates.

The virtual currency is scarce, sovereign and a great place for the rich to store their wealth.

Let’s hope it doesn’t take another Cuban Missile Crisis to bring the U.S. and China to detente.

The history of a pandemic, and its possible futures.

The main problem with social media isn’t political bias or market share, it’s that Big Tech is still coddled by legal protections from the dawn of the internet era.