Where’s Joe? By Leonard Zwelling Michelle Cottle in The New York Times on April 30 describes Joe Biden as “lurking.” Essentially Joe Biden is assuming a Rose Garden strategy while not being in office. He’s letting Trump self-destruct while the former vice president secludes in his basement in Delaware. His one appearance was Friday […]
What Changed? By Leonard Zwelling Did I miss something? Did a major change occur with regard to the coronavirus outbreak plaguing the world when I wasn’t looking? Is it somehow less of a threat? The answer to the last question depends on your point of view, I guess, but the answers to the
What If Our Strategy Was Wrong? By Leonard Zwelling In a chilling op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on April 24, Joseph C. Sternberg asks the unaskable question. Were the experts right the first time when it came to the novel coronavirus from Wuhan? What does he mean? If you go back a
Disorientation. Reorientation. By Leonard Zwelling The coronavirus changes everything. These three articles from The New York Times on April 24 make several important points. Those points not only apply to nations, but also to academic medical institutions. The first article describes what might be the most successful effort in the world to
The Plot Against America By Leonard Zwelling What if? Nothing can grab your attention more than an alternative telling of history, especially history that is so vivid in the mind and so crucial to our way of life. The seminal event of the 20th century was the Second World War. It derived
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The Academic Laboratory As Small Business By Leonard Zwelling In The New York Times on April 11, David Sax makes a critical point about small businesses being the lifeblood of the communities in which they operate. It is the small business owners who support the school silent auction and who are struggling to deal
You Would Think Academics Would Think Straighter By Leonard Zwelling file:///Users/leonardzwelling/Downloads/mockS5coverpagetemplate_ccell2988.pdf This is a journal pre-proof of a letter written to Cancer Cell from investigators at MD Anderson’s Department of Radiation Oncology. It makes an eloquent case that decisions made by the leaders of many academic institutions to shut, shutter, and deep-freeze a
The Corona Vote: Thumbs Up Or Down On Trump’s Performance By Leonard Zwelling In a long, complicated and detailed article in The New York Times on April 12, a group of reporters relates the time line of the coronavirus crisis as it pertains to the decision-making of the White House. What did Mr. Trump
The Swedish Control Arm By Leonard Zwelling In a real surprise, Sweden, of all places, is doing an experiment most countries would consider risky. Restaurants and schools are open. They have not taken the approach most of the world has taken to go to the extremes of social distancing. The question is whether social
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What I’m Trying To Say By Leonard Zwelling In the Wall Street Journal on April 8, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. makes some important points about the current mess the U.S. is in. And let’s be clear, that mess is not the coronavirus, but America’s response to it. And as a digression, let’s not
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