https://www.scmp.com/rss/506729/feed Hugo Drochon, assistant professor of political theory at the University of Nottingham, is the author of Nietzsche’s Great Politics. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com For the past month, the United States has regularly broken its daily record for new Covid-19 cases, registering more than 4.2 million cases overall and nearly 150,000 deaths. Although other developed countries seem to be containing the spread, the US has gone in the opposite direction: Arizona has as many cases as the entire European Union, which has 60 times the population. What went wrong? Part of the answer is certain states reopened too soon. California, an early success story, experienced a... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3094952/americas-polarisation-over-face-masks-symptom-deeper-culture-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3094952/americas-polarisation-over-face-masks-symptom-deeper-culture-war?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:00:14 +0000