Leonard Zwelling

Will Trump’s Base Really Reject Their Harleys? By Leonard Zwelling Now he’s really gone and done it. President Trump is forcing his dedicated base to choose between him and their motorcycles. The tariffs on imported steel have forced Harley-Davidson to move some its manufacturing to Europe to supply the European demand for its motorcycles. That […]

Match Point At Center Court By Leonard Zwelling Now the trouble really begins. Due to the suspension of the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate at the time of the Gorsuch nomination to the Supreme Court, there is absolutely nothing that the Democrats can do to stop Donald Trump from nominating an ultraconservative justice to

Did Bill Clinton Gift Us Donald Trump? By Leonard Zwelling Frank Bruni discusses the similarities between the latest incarnation of Bill Clinton and his successor in the Oval Office, Donald Trump. They are both self-pitying narcissists who can never admit to making an error, even twenty years down the line. Mr. Clinton got angry at

All Medicine Should Be Personalized By Leonard Zwelling In his unique and insightful way, Siddhartha Mukherjee has once again distilled the cancer problem down to what we know and what we don’t. He describes the previous “mutant-hunting” that was the earliest days of genomic medicine as being like the Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover that

Kids In Cages: Were It Only That Simple By Leonard Zwelling I am no expert on immigration. I do know that immigration to the United States is one of the foremost reasons for American dominance in the world since WW II. I also know that any attempts to limit the access the rest of the

Trudeau Doesn’t Buy Trump’s Bluster By Leonard Zwelling The angriest I think I saw Ron DePinho get was when he called me and the President and Vice President of the Faculty Senate into his office to castigate us about the leaks of slides that had been shown to the Senate. These slides had made their

Relationships Are The Key To Re-Engineering MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling As David Brooks points out in the NY Times, Donald Trump has re-engineered the politics of the United States and the world. Where once the post-WW II world was one in which our security was based on our willingness to firm up our relationships

NBC Is Then. Netflix Is Now! By Leonard Zwelling It’s the final full day for us at Banff and it has been a very busy meeting with lots of pitches about our scripts and many formal presentations and panel discussions. This afternoon the final two panels convened and they could not have been more different

There’s No Business That’s NOT Like Show Business By Leonard Zwelling This is a quote from the irascible Fran Lebowitz and, boy, is it true. I am in Banff, Canada attending the Banff World Media Festival. This is a meeting of movie and TV producers, writers and agents all looking for the next big thing.

The sizzle reel from my pitch to producers for our TV Series called Conflict of Interest www.conflictofinterestseries.com