Seoul's Radical Experiment in Digital Contact Tracing

Plus: The coronavirus in Alaska, how pandemics changes history, and an interview with the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. View in browser | Update your preferences Dispatch Seoul’s Radical Experiment in Digital Contact Tracing In South Korea, the government is disseminating detailed tracking data on people with COVID-19. By Max S. Kim Dispatch Will the Coronavirus Spare Remote Places? Villages in Alaska are sealing themselves off from the outside world to prevent infection; if the pandemic arrives, it will be devastating. By Caroline Lester Daily Comment Woodrow Wilson’s Flu, and How Pandemics Change History The two worst pandemics to strike the United States in the past hundred years have coincided with the terms of two Presidents—Wilson and Trump—who were plainly unprepared for their responsibilities. By Steve Coll News Desk Studying Fascist Propaganda and Trump’s COVID-19 Updates The Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees parallels between history’s autocrats and the President’s actions in response to the pandemic. By Andrew Marantz Q. & A. Gordon Brown’s Case for Global Coöperation The former British Prime Minister discusses the difficulties of international collaboration in response to COVID-19 at a time of rising demagoguery and why Downing Street is a very bad place for social distancing. By Isaac Chotiner PAID POST “I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last…” Hell and Other Destinations reveals Madeleine Albright at her bluntest, funniest, most intimate, and most serious. The former Secretary of State “weaves geopolitics with her own life story in this intelligent and personable memoir” (Publishers Weekly). START READING NOW Culture Books A Memoirist Who Mistrusts Her Own Memories In the course of twenty books, Annie Ernaux has devoted herself to the excavation of her own life. By Madeleine Schwartz The Front Row What I Miss Most About Movie Theatres With film festivals closing down and the entire industry at risk, the obscurity of the undiscovered grows ever deeper. By Richard Brody Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Some Drawings from Week Three at Home Zoom FOMO, strange dreams, and more. By Liana Finck Puzzles & Games Dept. The Weekend Crossword Weather-predicting Bruno Mars hit of 2011: ten letters. By Elizabeth C. Gorski This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.