State of Emergency

Advice-giving in a tense and volatile moment is often unwelcome -- but I am going to try anyway

For many people, the urban violence of the 1960s is history, but last night, those memories came rushing back as I watched the news reports about police and protesters battling it out across the nation.

And during those rebellions there wasn’t a deadly virus racing around from protester to protester: reports from friends who participated in New York are…