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The Year of Paranoia: how trust evaporated in 2020

The Year of Our Lord 2020 might go down as a watershed year in the history of the United States…

Tennessee represents one extreme of the government’s herky-jerky pandemic response

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. At least, that’s what I always heard….

Vaccinate yourself against blind trust in authority

The world has never been more on edge over a vial of chemicals. A COVID-19 vaccine, the mythical ambrosia of…

Lessons from the pandemic: density may be the best policy

In the last hundred years, the name of the game in housing and work has been density. Since 2007, more…

Championship or bust for women’s hoops going into Perry and Waldrop’s senior seasons

The women’s basketball squad suffered a heartbreaking conclusion to their otherwise stellar 2019-20 season, as the Skyhawks lost to the…