We’ll Always Have Paris—But Not Right Now By Leonard Zwelling After President Trump successfully ran on a platform aimed at keeping foreigners out of the United States, it is truly ironic that his decision-making surrounding the coronavirus has now led to Americans being kept out of Europe. Rwandans are welcomed in Europe. Americans are …
Jaws: The Shark Was The Monster, But Not The Villain By Leonard Zwelling It has been 45 years since it was safe to go into the water. But as Jennifer Weiner pointed out in The New York Times on July 8, the shark was not the villain. The shark was just being a …
Two States? Too Late. By Leonard Zwelling Peter Beinart, a professor of journalism and political science at the Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY and an editor of Jewish Currents writes in The New York Times an opinion that I have shared for a number of years—at least since my last trip to Israel. …
Sad By Leonard Zwelling I know depression. First hand. You know the real thing—requiring drug therapy and all the rest. I managed to avoid ECT, but believe me, I know depression. Today, I am not depressed. I’m sad. I am not full of emptiness as much as full of sorrow. What has happened …
America’s Caste System By Leonard Zwelling I told you I am struggling with this one. Never in the past fifty years has America inched up to coming to grips with the legacy of slavery and what it means to African-Americans as it has in the last few months. When I wrote in …
Modern Medicine By Leonard Zwelling The June 25, 2020 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine could be retitled, “what’s really going on in medicine.” These three articles, two are editorials, the last an actual research study, upend much of what we thought (or thought we thought or I thought we thought) …
Respect By Leonard Zwelling On July 1, Thomas L. Friedman had the lead editorial in The New York Times. It was advice for Joe Biden with regard to his bumper sticker. It was suggested to him by an environmental innovator named Hal Harvey. It reads: “Respect science, respect nature, respect each other.” …
I Believe It’s About Wealth: What BLM May Be Missing By Leonard Zwelling I think that this is the hardest blog that I have ever tried to write. Rarely am I unsure where a blog is going. As I write this, I am unsure. As readers know, I have been following the 1619 …
Magical Thinking By Leonard Zwelling I first came upon this term in 2005 when I read Joan Didion’s book The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir about the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. To simplify, magical thinking is the belief that thoughts can influence the physical world. If I wish for something …
Addresses By Leonard Zwelling A little reportage from the front. Apparently your friends at MD Anderson Information Systems are watching you. They will notice if you log into the network from an IP address distant from Houston and ask you whether you have taken leave and/or have registered your travel from Houston in …
