Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Fareed Zakaria presents ten surprising, hopeful and vital lessons for recovery in our age of asymmetry. He highlights the importance of investing in healthcare and education, harnessing technology and how to react to America’s retreat from leadership on the world stage. COVID-19 has made the old categories of left vs right, democracy vs dictatorship and big vs small government obsolete and highlighted what should have always been the obvious challenge to populism – good government. Sheer competence made all the difference in those countries which dealt with the pandemic best. The future belongs to the smart state.