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Andy Horowitz

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Pre-Existing Conditions: Pandemics as History

In times that feel “unprecedented,” it is all the more important to use history as a way to understand the present and chart a path to the future.

by Andy Horowitz via Items on July 9, 2020
How Is a Disaster Made?

Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.

by Andy Horowitz via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 7, 2020
The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.

by Andy Horowitz via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 8, 2018

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The Human Nature of Disaster

A storm is never just wind or rain. Our natural problems are social problems. The solutions to them must be social, too.

by Maia Silber via Public Books on March 26, 2021

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A Disaster 100 Years in the Making

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.

by Eric Klinenberg via New York Review of Books on October 22, 2020

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