We discussed Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibben earlier this year. His message is that climate catastrophe is not foreordained, even if the current “weather” is odd and suggests that something in seriously amiss. I grew up in the American South, where “hot” is the normal state of being from April through October. One […]
Read more...On the simplistic reasoning Robert Nozick used to justify inequality and a minimal state
Read more...People should be more concerned with the effects of the policies imposed by the Trumps and Musks of the world than the DNA passed on by their parents.
Read more...Part the First: The Slow Death of Biomedical Research Continues in the United States. We have covered this before, but the entire unfolding situation gets more surreal by the week. STAT News has been a go-to source, as in NIH will spend its full budget this year, agency director promises House appropriators. The first shot […]
Read more...Cuba has no option other than to knuckle under in the face of US economic strangulation. What comes next?
Read more...A timely recap of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of conspicuous consumption and its implication.
Read more...Oligarch overreach on every front presents challenges—and opportunities.
Read more...The American Southern accent reveals how linguistic prejudice reinforces classism, regionalism, and subconscious bias across generations.
Read more...Part the First: Nutrition and Medicine. The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is not wrong in his emphasis on nutrition (a stopped analog clock is right twice a day). I don’t know where Lauren Rice is attending medical school in New York City, but her editorial take seems about half right in I’m […]
Read more...Trump is losing in Iran and on the immigration front as a Federal judge backs Constitutional due process rights over efficiency.
Read more...Part the First: As Giants Still Walk the Earth. Stanley Plotkin began practicing medicine in the 1950s. When he was an intern, outcomes for patients such as this little boy were frightening and devastating: Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the […]
Read more...Polling data, religiosity surveys, and demographics raise questions about the Western narrative that Iranians seek regime change
Read more...ICE helps clear apartment complexes and evict tenants while incarceration buildout throws a lifeline to commercial real estate.
Read more...Only one part this Friday. The president announced Casey Means, MD, would be his nominee for Surgeon General of the United States hearings in the middle of 2025. The US Senate began considering her nomination this week. The back and forth has been interesting. Where to begin? First we can start with the previous nine […]
Read more...Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that falling trust in government and financial institutions puts the U.S. economy in peril
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