Radio Free Pizza
Potential for Pandemonium?
May 31, 202621 minS0
<p>Two years ago, in one of those Radio Free Pizza dispatches that we imagine certain readers either cherish or regret having survived, we considered the coronavirus pandemic not merely as a public-health emergency, but as a crisis of narrative authority. The question, as we understood it then, was not only whether the official story had been true, or whether the response had been justified, or whether various public-health bureaucrats, pharmaceutical executives, corporate-media personalities, and supranational functionaries had behaved with the wisdom and benevolence they so often attributed to themselves. Obviously they had not. The deeper question was how quickly...
