How Iran Became a Global Vector of Infection for COVID-19

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: How Iran Became a Global Vector of Infection for COVID-19: The authoritarian theocracy faces specific challenges in dealing with the coronavirus By Noam Blum on the Tablet website on March 13, 2020.
Covid-19 Cases in Iran. Image: Pharexia, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Further signs of life: The Best American Short Stories 2019

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Literature

Click Here to Read: Further signs of life: The Best American Short Stories 2019 By James McDonald on the World Socialist Web Site on March 21, 2020.

We Have To Bring Down the Number of Cases Now. Otherwise We Won’t Be Able To Handle It

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 21, 2020March 21, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: “We Have To Bring Down the Number of Cases Now. Otherwise We Won’t Be Able To Handle It”: Virologist Christian Drosten is guiding Germany through the current pandemic. He spoke to Zeit Online about the length of the crisis – and how it will change our lives. Interviewed by Florian Schumann on the Zeit website on March 21. 2020.

Who was Sigmund Freud?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2020March 21, 2020 Film, History

Click Here to Read: Who was Sigmund Freud? The true story behind new Netflix drama series, Freud. More than just a Freudian slip By Emma Bullimore on the Radio Times website on March 20, 2020.

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Film, History

Click Here to Read: Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue: Documentary about war crimes and historical revisionism in Japan By Isabel Roy on the World Socialist Web Site on March 20, 2020.

Emma. and Jane Austen’s realism

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Film, Literature

Click Here to Read: Emma. and Jane Austen’s realism By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on March 20, 2020.

China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia: Its financial markets may be even more dangerous than its wildlife markets By Walter Russell Mead in the Washington Post on February 3, 2020. Chinese Flay Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.