Opinion

Meaning is fickle and cannot be easily replicated. It is not pliable or malleable, or even durable. It cannot be created in a lab or a government building, and once destroyed it is difficult to resurrect

Silicon Valley has outgrown its counterculture. It’s time to professionalize the tech industry.

Let’s start with a metaphor: Imagine a giant toilet filled with diarrhea is overflowing and the government proposes a tax holiday on plungers as the solution.

It’s important to recognize the disparate impacts that the coronavirus has between differing populations—in the world, but even more so within one country. Rising nationalism naturally hurts international relations; paradoxically, however, it hurts Americans as well.

But the rhetoric of “law and order” is often a ploy to win votes by punishing the poor––especially communities of color––while letting the powerful get away with far more serious crimes.

By pursuing higher education in America, African students in the US no longer belong to the majority population of their home countries, and are instead categorized as being part of a minority—one that is extremely vulnerable and under attack.

Here’s the thing about pandemics: if a solution doesn’t apply to everyone, it’s no good.

As you consider the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, spare a thought for the mice. And the zebrafish. And the state of American science.