David Zweig is the author of the novel Swimming Inside the Sun and the nonfiction book Invisibles. He has testified twice before Congress as an expert witness on American schools during the pandemic, and his investigative reporting on the pandemic has been cited in numerous congressional letters and a brief to the Supreme Court. Zweig’s journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker , The Atlantic, New York, Wired, The Free Press, The Boston Globe, and, most often, his newsletter, Silent Lunch. He lives with his family in New York State.

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Preface
Introduction
1. Remote Learning While Flattening the Curve
2. GIGO
3. Red Dawn
4. More Assumptions
5. (Wrong) Lessons from the Past
6. Europe
7. The Media, Part I
8. It’s Good to Feel Like You’re Doing Something
9. Out of an Abundance of Caution
10. The Evidence from Daycares
11. Technological Solutionism
12. If Trump Is for It, Then We’re Against It
13. Politics and Tribalism
14. The Media, Part II
15. Risk Aversion, Groupthink, and Safetyism
16. The Media, Part III
17. The Worst of Both Worlds, Part I
18. Parents Advocate for Open Schools
19. Bad Incentives
20. Rights and Responsibilities
21. The Worst of Both Worlds, Part II
22. An Absence of Leadership
23. Institutional Failure and the Success of Empirical Studies
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes

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