I had not yet decided which coronavirus related topic I would write about next when I heard the news that the sitting president of the United States—amid a global pandemic of historic proportions—pulled America’s funding from the World Health Organization. I should not have been shocked, despite the perversity of Continue Reading
Nativism, Sinophobia, and COVID-19
In a nativist worldview, nations should be both culturally and ethnically homogenous. However, no nation on earth has such ethnic and cultural purity. Such a construct of nationhood goes against the central pillar of modern liberal democracies—pluralism—which holds that a society consists of separate groups with diverse and competing interests, each of which should be taken as legitimate.