Healthcare
Losing faith in our government
Do you trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Many people don’t, according to a recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Just 67% said…
September 22, 2020
Healthcare
What is a ‘randomized controlled trial’?
Chances are in the last six months, you have heard or read the term “randomized controlled trial.” Once an obscure and highly technical term, it first entered…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Christopher Lasch’s French heir
The work of historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch is generating new interest throughout the world. One of his most provocative interpreters is French philosopher Jean-Claude Michea,…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Contagion’
I was surprised and amused to find an entry on the proper spelling of “cancel, canceled, canceling, cancellation” in the Associated Press Stylebook’s new “Coronavirus Topical Guide”…
Magazine - Features
Thank you for your service comedy
How often can you say today that all Americans are in the same boat? Except during times of true national crisis, such as the present coronavirus pandemic,…
Business
Middle-class America will get crushed by the return of the Obama-Biden pro-regulation agenda
The Biden Democrats are rewriting history, celebrating the Obama record on the economy as if 2008-2016 were salad days for America. In Washington parlance, that is called…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Phelps flops
Michael Phelps may be the fastest man ever to plunge into a pool, but his skills as a narrator are decidedly underwater. No small number of things…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The great American poet
In the 19th century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) stood astride the literary world like a giant. His work included some 420 published poems of every category and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
<i>Ramy </i>and the virtue of anti-fragility
The second season of Ramy, the breakout Hulu series following the life of first-generation Muslim American Ramy Hassan (played by Ramy Youseff), begins much like the first.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Anything but the truth
There’s an old story about a terrible production of the play The Diary of Anne Frank. It was so awful, apparently, that in a scene early on,…