John Ehrenreich, Author at Public Seminar

The Covid Lab-Leak Debate Is Destructive

We don’t need to know the origins of Covid-19 to know how pandemics start—we need to know how to contain them and why our natural world is now more lethal

June 8, 2021 • by John Ehrenreich

_____ Was the coronavirus transmitted from wild animals to humans, or was it accidentally leaked from a lab? Whatever the answer, the spirited debate over the origins of the disease is a dangerous distraction from the serious discussion we need to have: how to prevent repeats of the Covid-19 pandemic. For most ...

The Future of a Delusion

Why Trump’s followers still have faith in him

February 15, 2021 • by John Ehrenreich

Noon on January 20 was a “ding-dong the witch is dead” moment for many. Defeated in the election, discredited by the invasion of the Capitol, and impeached for a second time, Donald Trump disappeared into his Mar-a-Lago mansion. His hold on the Republican Party and the nation seemed over. But though ...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longer View

Decades of bad policies brought us to this point: we need to reckon with that as a nation

May 7, 2020 • by John Ehrenreich

The highest priority is to get through the current crisis. But then we must think about what went wrong and how to forestall future crises like this. The ideas include reversing President Trump‘s decision to dismantle the federal pandemic response team, supersizing our public health corps, improving our capacity to ...