The UN 2022 Special Report “New threats to human security in the Anthropocene” (2022 Special Report on Human Security | Human Development Reports (undp.org)) speaks of the declining levels of trust and insecurity in the world, and the need for a different type of leadership. The report called for a collective response to attend to the […]

Perhaps Adam Smith knew all along. Compassion and economy are words which you rarely, if ever, see in the same sentence. Yet none of us would be here without the love and compassion of our families when we were born and for years afterwards. Care for each other in the home is crucial to the […]

Health systems across the world have been tested by this pandemic, and many have been found wanting, surprised by the pandemic’s ferocity and its unknowness, its seeming unpredictability. And yet pandemics are not new — the Black Death, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS. We know a lot about pandemics and can even […]

In the last chapter of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Love in the time of Cholera, Florentino commands the captain of the river boat to raise a yellow flag signifying cholera on board. Passengers already on the boat get off, no new passengers embark, leaving Florentino, and the widowed Femina together to love. The flag created […]