Yong analyzed the U.S.’s long-term struggles in responding to the pandemic during the Gerson Family Lecture on Wednesday night.
Opinions, Op-Ed
A Moment Of Shared Humanity Amid A Pandemic
It was a chilly Wednesday morning in February and I was walking up from the Beacon Street Garage as I have done for the past 20 years. It was after 8:30 a.m. and there were a bunch of students walking to their 9 a.m. classes. Most people had hats, masks, and kept their heads down,…
Opinions, Column
Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.
Metro, Newton
Newton Community Cameras Documents the Early Days of the Pandemic
“I think people might not realize that a historic time is made up of everyday moments when people are trying to make the best of things,” Silverstein said.
Arts, Movies, Review
Docuseries ‘Pandemic’ Chronicles Treatment and Prevention
Especially relevant with the recent coronavirus outbreak, ‘Pandemic’ chronicles the often rapid and unpredictable spread of influenza.
