Breaking the Fever

Getting to the heart of what's wrong with a certain strain of conservative pandemic commentary

Last Wednesday, I published a piece in The Week where I tried to get to the heart of what exactly it is I’ve found unsettling about some of the pandemic commentary from a certain corner of the political right. I’m not talking about the conspiracy theory stuff or the off-the-wall nonsense, but rather some of the opinions coming from a certain corner of t…