May 13, 2021

COVID and the Loss of Common Sense

If every cloud has a silver lining, COVID’s silver, from which we should try to benefit, has shone the light on the shallowness and fragility of our commonsense.   Few of us are immune to the all-powerful assault of fear -- of death f...

February 15, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez: Only the Latest in a Long Line of 'You're Gonna Die' Con Men

"There is a sucker born every minute."  Who among us cannot recall being conned? In the 1970 tear-jerker Love Story, the dying Ali MacGraw delivers this gem: "Love means not having to say you're sorry." ...

May 30, 2016

Trump, Thomas More, and the Short Route to Chaos

It is a time, like past times, of pressures and temptations, sticks and carrots. The year was 1530 and Thomas More, Chancellor of England, had a decision to make. King Henry VIII, frustrated that his wife, Catherine of Aragon, had failed to produc...

November 25, 2013

Health Insurance and Care: An American Strategy

Americans are generous -- period.  That is the key to resolving the problems of health insurance and care. First up is the nonexistence of insurance coverage for millions of Americans -- the uninsured.  Presented with the realit...