The coronavirus pandemic has many world leaders reaching for a well-worn rhetorical flourish: the war metaphor. But is the war rhetoric overused? Problematic, even? And what about better metaphorical alternatives? Patrick Cox, co-host of the Subtitle podcast, has the story.
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