Covid is a disease of sociality itself, that the only way we can escape covid is just by eliminating all spontaneous, unsurveiled, interpersonal interactions. i r l, existence is fairly unrelentingly, e difficult and and short of promise. I'm not going to sidestep the issue of differential incarceration policies for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. And this is actually the future which liberalism has in store for us. The mate, the matrix future.
UnHerd's contributors look back at a tumultuous year.
The year began with riots in Capitol Hill in Washington and the removal of Donald Trump from social media; in March Meghan and Harry gave their interview to Oprah from a Los Angeles mansion, and in April Prince Phillip passed away; Western troops departed Afghanistan, leaving chaotic scenes in the capital Kabul; Maya Forstater was judged by the courts to be legally entitled to her gender critical viewpoints — and Kathleen Stock was forced out of Sussex University; bitcoin became formal tender in its first nation state; and Covid dominated public policy for the second year running.
Freddie Sayers is joined by Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington to look back on a tumultuous and consequential year.
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