The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration

Plus: Should New Yorkers stay or flee?; China’s struggles with hospice care; and British house names. View in browser | Update your preferences Q. & A. The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration Richard Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law, discusses two articles he wrote, on the Hoover Institution Web site, entitled “Coronavirus Perspective” and “Coronavirus Overreaction,” and his views of the pandemic. By Isaac Chotiner Our Columnists Where Should a Good New Yorker Be During the Coronavirus? The corollary to the idea that evil New Yorkers are spreading the virus around the country seems to be that good New Yorkers stay at home. By Masha Gessen Medical Dispatch The French Psychiatrist Who Counsels Crisis Doctors In countries where coronavirus infections are threatening the capacity of the health system, doctors are confronting ethical quandaries for which nothing in their training prepared them. By Lauren Collins PAID POST New from the best-selling author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel. Named one of the most anticipated reads of 2020 by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, O, the Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Vulture, The Millions, and more. "Deeply imagined, philosophically profound...Revolutionary." (The Atlantic) READ AN EXCERPT From the Magazine Letter from Yangquan China’s Struggles with Hospice Care As social transformations sweep the country, who will tend to the dying? By Jiayang Fan Culture and More All Hands on Deck Dept. The MacGyvers Taking on the Ventilator Shortage A crowdsourced effort to make more of the life-saving devices, whether from vacuum-cleaner bags, CPAPs, or snorkelling gear. By Tyler Foggatt Books Carolyn Forché’s Education in Looking In our deeply bifurcated world, the poet’s best work engages in a dialectic in which the truth of experience burns as brightly as her intuition and imagination. By Hilton Als Letter from the U.K. What Do the Names of British Houses Mean? The British have a long tradition of naming dwellings, and there have been periods when these names have acquired an astonishing expressiveness. By Sam Knight Puzzles and Games Dept. The Weekday Crossword Defunct airline, or a defunct TV drama about the airline: five letters. By Patrick Berry Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Things That Used to Be Annoying But Are Now a Comfort The neighbors’ trumpet never sounded so good. By Avi Steinberg Daily Cartoon Monday, March 30th By Kendra Allenby Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.