What’s The Truth? By Leonard Zwelling Perhaps nothing dominates the editorial pages like this question. What are we really seeing and hearing on TV, the Internet, and in our lives? What can we trust when we can no longer trust our senses, not because our hearing or vision is malfunctioning, but because the signals coming …
Epistemology: The Power To Know By Leonard Zwelling https://study.com/academy/lesson/epistemology-definition-examples-quiz.html I have been thinking about this one for weeks now. In the Age of Trump, how can we know the truth? How can anyone know the truth? What is the truth and how do we determine its validity? I never thought this would be a problem. …
Bayh-Dole For Jocks By Leonard Zwelling It’s tough to remember that there are stories out there of significance beyond presidential impeachment and the burning of California, but there are. One of the most important for college athletics is the fact that the NCAA may finally be loosening its rules on allowing young collegiate athletes to …
Has Academic Medicine Become A Socialist System And Might The Capitalism Of Big Pharma Be Bringing It Back? By Leonard Zwelling In David Brooks’ op-ed on December 6 in The New York Times he reveals a surprising fact about himself. In his youth, he was a socialist. As he is one of the few conservative …
What If The Democrats Threw Out The Calendar? By Leonard Zwelling The last two blogs have focused on the issue of President Trump’s pending impeachment. First, there really is little doubt that Mr. Trump did some impeachable stuff. There’s more than enough evidence whether you include the violations of the emoluments clause or the findings …
The Real Problem With Impeachment: Time By Leonard Zwelling Jonathan Turley’s claim in front of the House Judiciary Committee that the current rush to impeachment is just that, precipitous, is an argument with some merit. There are many people who ought to be testifying but who have not. They include John Bolten, Mick Mulvaney, Rick …
All In By Leonard Zwelling On December 3, the House Intelligence Committee majority report on its investigation into the alleged impeachable misconduct of the President of the United States dropped to the media. The only really new news was the volume of phone calls between the White House or the Office of Management and Budget …
Micromanaging: Trump, The SEALs, And Incidents Of My Own By Leonard Zwelling https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-spencer-i-was-fired-as-navy-secretary-heres-what-ive-learned-because-of-it/2019/11/27/9c2e58bc-1092-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html This opinion piece in The Washington Post is by former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer. He was fired by Defense Secretary Mark Esper after having lost the confidence of Esper and of President Trump with regard to the way he handled the case …
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OK, Boomer: What We Left To Posterity By Leonard Zwelling “OK, Boomer” has become a dismissive meme of the millennial and GenZ cohorts that connotes the “out-of-touchness” of those of us in our early 70s as well as the unwillingness of the Baby Boomers to cede power and authority to the younger people in their …
Can Israel Snap Out Of It? By Leonard Zwelling This editorial in The New York Times does a great job of outlining the dilemma facing the nation of Israel today. To be brief, it does not have a working government and hasn’t has had one for close to a year. It has had two elections …
