This is my response to Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty, by Emily Oster, published in The Atlantic on October 31st, 2022. After some personal anecdotes, she starts to approach the core point of her article.

What is it about the University of Wisconsin and race? The administration’s recent decision to move a rock from view because a journalist referred to it with the N-word almost 100 years ago was goofy enough.

We have seen our freedom of speech slowly eroded over the past decade quite significantly, when criticized, generally it is defended by using the perspective argument of China. 'You don't know how lucky

This is an excellent breakdown of what went wrong in the interview.

This article in the Atlantic, while suuuuper technical and too long.. is FASCINATING, and absolutely worth reading, or at least skimming (what I did). I am very seriously now considering getting a landline