The Left Needs to Find Itself

The Left Needs to Find Itself
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David Bell
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It is tiring to be accused of being “far-right” by people doing the bidding of the corporations and investors who recently made a killing on COVID-19. It is particularly irritating that such people, while deriding low-income workers and the “uneducated,” have convinced themselves that they are somehow being virtuous. They call themselves “left,” but so do I. We either need to rethink or ditch these outdated epithets, or be more honest about our positions.

David Bell
David Bell
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David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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