Stay Home and Read This! A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday edition)

We are offering our top 10 selections, probably daily, of the best (most interesting, weirdest) articles and podcasts on COVID-19 and American policy responses.

Overall our reading leads us to think there ARE and SHOULD BE "libertarians in a pandemic," and that indeed non-libertarian policies are what make responses to the pandemic inadequate.

1) "The Political Economy of Pandemics" Call for Papers (Cosmos&Taxis)






2)  Historians want your contemporaneous journals and photos of coronavirus in Washington, D.C. (WAMU radio)

3)  Historians also want your journals and photos in Indiana.  (Indiana Historical Society)

4) Inconvenient history:  Dr. Fauci told Newsmax TV earlier this year that coronavirus would be no problem.  (Newsmax)

5)  Big Pharma hopes AIDS drug will work on coronavirus.  (Washington Blade)

6) Nurses ordered out of hospital after protesting conditions.  (The Independent)

7) Duke University economist Michael Munger discusses riots, rationing, price gouging in our future. (reason)

8)  Statists will use pandemic as an opportunity to permanently make society unfree.  (Advancing Time)


9) Fans create an Alien themed face mask.  (Nerdist) 

10) Governments are trampling civil liberties during pandemic.  (The Stream)