Contagion Shows the Limits of the State

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 9th at 10:58 PM  | 

I went to see Contagion tonight, and can tell you, dear reader, it’s an entertaining film. A new virus enters the human population, a mutated version of the bird flu, and the film chronicles how Americans, governments and others in the world, including China, muddle through. “Muddle through” is a phrase used to describe the human condition during the greatest pandemic, caused by the 1918 | Read More »