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Contact Tracing Versus Civil Liberties
“Contact-tracing apps pose major concerns for liberties and privacy. Even though such tools may be necessary to track the spread of the coronavirus, the fear that Big Tech companies will misuse individuals’ data is especially pronounced given past ethical breaches and the current lack of transparency in how our data is being used” (Thomas Recchio, 2020).
Naming the Disappeared, Raising the Dead
“The silencing of victims of political violence — the reduction of those who have suffered to lamentation and weeping — demonstrates its worst consequence: its paralyzing power...art matters because it articulates and materializes painful experiences into images that are capable of breaking that hold” (Doris Salcedo, 2020).
The End of the New World Order
“It’s a mistake to believe most conspiracy theories, but it’s also a mistake to assume that they bear no relation to reality. Some are just insane emanations or deliberate misinformation. But others exaggerate and misread important trends rather than denying them, or offer implausible explanations for mysteries that nonetheless linger unexplained” (Ross Douthat, 2020).
Crumbs for the Hungry but Windfalls for the Rich
“While President Trump and his allies in Congress seek to tighten access to food stamps, they are showing compassion for one group: zillionaires. Their economic rescue package quietly allocated $135 billion — yes, that’s “billion” with a “b” — for the likes of wealthy real estate developers” (Nicholas Kristof, 2020).
Germany’s Lessons for China and America
“Nationalism is the most facile and effective of political tools, as well as the most dangerous. It was important, in the midst of a pandemic that has revealed a world incapable of a coordinated response and devoid of American leadership, that Europe’s most powerful nation step forward with honor” (Roger Cohen, 2020).
COVID-19 Isn’t the Only Threat to Privacy
“Even before the coronavirus pandemic, political campaigns, in particular, were engaged in a digital arms race to gather as much information about citizens’ whereabouts, habits, and beliefs as possible. That competition continues apace as the U.S. presidential election nears. Now, the pandemic risks normalizing and legitimizing these invasive practices” (Joseff and Woolley, 2020).
Can Europe Stay Back From the Brink?
“After three months of chaos and deaths caused by the pandemic, the continent, led by Germany and France, is giving convergence another try” (Sylvie Kauffmann, 2020).
Countries should seize the moment to flatten the climate curve
“The pandemic both reveals the size of the challenge ahead and also creates a unique chance to enact government policies that steer the economy away from carbon at a lower financial, social and political cost than might otherwise have been the case” (Leaders, 2020).
What Kind of Regime Does China Have?
"In order to understand how the United States and other Western countries should deal with China in the coming years, we need to understand what kind of society we are dealing with. Such an understanding needs to be derived both from Chinese history and from its more recent behavior." (Fukuyama, 2020)
Democratic digital infrastructure
This report details “policy recommendations for the UK and US” regarding the authors’ proposal to consider “moving in the direction of treating digital connectivity as a right and organising digital infrastructure...as a vital 21st century public good, underpinned by democratic ownership and governance” (Hanna et al., 2020).
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