"Scientific and Public Health Success Has Provoked an Anti-Intellectual and Antisocial Backlash"

"Americans have become more individualistic, more conspiracy-minded, and less committed to collective social effort. This new social Darwinism helped elect Donald Trump—and now it's being put into practice by RFK Jr. and Elon Musk."

Jeet Heer at The Nation looks at America five years after the beginning of the Covid pandemic.