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Public health within reason

The next generation: The kids are (probably) alright

Sectarianism and the public’s health

The challenge of slow-burning threats.

Public health and tradition

A populist public health

Reflections on The Contagion Next Time

Why write a book about a pandemic during a pandemic?

How sunk-cost bias can obscure our vision of a post-COVID world

The problem of positional bias

Looking beyond our biases

Inefficiency in the pursuit of excellence

Health in an era of resurgent great power conflict 

Thinking in groups, thinking for ourselves (or: in praise of iconoclasm)

The consent of the governed

Resisting our suburban impulses

Resisting the allure of moral grandstanding

The ineluctable role of the faceless bureaucrat  

The aesthetics of a healthier world

How bad ideas can make good ones better

Borders in an age of pandemics

The history of soccer, the butterfly, and public health

A playbook for balancing the moral and empirical case for health

Why will we remember what we remember about COVID-19?

What stories will we tell about COVID-19?

Our place in the natural order of things

“One does have joys”

UFOs, COVID, and the return of radical uncertainty

Too far, or not far enough?

A case for good faith argument

Why health?

The false choice between diversity, inclusion, and the pursuit of excellence

Mercy and our present moment

The radical importance of acknowledging progress

What do we want from our political system?

Reflecting on the themes of the COVID moment

Fear in a year of pandemic

Health and the opportunity to freely think

Liberty and health?

Who’s left?

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Public health and the temptations of power

Reason + health

The spherical cow problem

Decision-making in an age of Covid and social media

A case against moralism in public health

The stimulus is necessary medicine

How to get healthier and wealthier during a pandemic

The Healthiest Goldfish