Viral Days

When Covid hit, we already had the boat, so we only had to throw the lines

How Scotland’s national poet brought solace at a time of pain and isolation

What the Athenian historian’s insights predict about the future of our own democracy

There’s one thing I won’t relinquish to a pandemic that’s claimed so much

The more things change, the more they stay the same

What we lose when we can’t get close to the ones we love

Who created it and how it is maintained

How the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau differs from today’s libertarianism

A return to reading as a private and a public act

The discovery of the world’s oldest rock offers a hefty dose of perspective