Deborah Coen
Deborah Coen's research and teaching bring together the history of science and the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe. She has published widely on the history of the physical and earth sciences, including The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Her most recent book is Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale, published by the University of Chicago Press in July 2018.
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Why the Founders Would Decry What America has Become
If the Founding Fathers saw what the United States has become, they would be devastated. Poverty, income inequality, suppression of speaking ones mind, crime, war, and oligarch like behaviors all make up this new U.S. It is far from being the democracy it was created as.
Pandemic profiteering: Amazon caught price gouging as Jeff Bezos’s wealth soared to $200 billion
“They are looking to maximize profit during a pandemic.”
Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by spring 2021, study finds
The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.
Supreme Court: A superstore for the super-rich?
This is America, after all, where rich white men can buy whatever they want, including members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.
The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’
As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.