Opinion | No One Knows What’s Going to Happen Stop asking pundits to predict the future after the coronavirus. It doesn’t exist. www.nytimes.com By Mark Lilla Dr. Lilla is a professor of humanities at Columbia. New York Times May 22, 2020 The best prophet, Thomas Hobbes once wrote, is the best guesser. That would seem to be the last word on our capacity to predict the future: We can’t. But it is..