Summary
Fareed Zakaria: Ten Lessons for the Post-Pandemic World
Ten Lessons for the Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria, a prominent CNN journalist, is not just a journalistic review of the greatest crisis humanity has faced since World War II. The book written in the middle of the pandemic, Ten Lessons, may seem like a great example of a quick journalistic reaction, which it certainly is, but it is much more than that. Zakaria's erudition, analyticalness and criticality when it comes to global political and economic trends are qualities expected from a world-renowned author, but his knowledge of medicine and the simplicity and clarity with which he described the genesis of the pandemic are especially impressive. We have been living with viruses since time immemorial in this dangerous world and they are indeed not the only and most terrible threat. Zakaria also warns about populism, climate change, the uncertainties of the digital age, the American-Chinese rivalry... In his Ten Lessons for the World after the Pandemic, he also looks at the eternal doubt between state interventionism and the free market.
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