Len Zwelling

Yesterday By Leonard Zwelling This is not a movie review. I will not be outlining the full plot of this excellent film. I will not be talking about the performances or the actors or the director. I want to talk about two things. First, what this film is really about is what the world would […]

How Being A Liberal Has Changed By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/liberalism-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-11561069996?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 In this excellent op-ed piece from The Wall Street Journal on Friday, June 21, Michael Blechman, who considers himself an old-fashioned liberal, bemoans liberalism’s loss of many of its key principles. Mr. Blechman was a staffer for the Robert Kennedy presidential campaign in 1968. He

Transparency By Leonard Zwelling When people can synthesize videos on YouTube so that celebrities appear to be saying things they never have, there is going to be a growth in cynicism. In this age of “fake news” and Russian malware, how is one going to acquire true information on which to make decisions? The commonest

Are You As Confused As I Am? By Leonard Zwelling https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/nih-probe-foreign-ties-has-led-undisclosed-firings-and-refunds-institutions http://houston.culturemap.com/news/innovation/06-25-19-top-ceos-peter-pisters-md-anderson-cancer-center/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-one-should-die-blood-transfusion-so-why-did-it-n1021506 This blog has been writing about the persecution of Chinese faculty members, even faculty members who are naturalized American citizens, for weeks now. The blog has recently also focused on the CMS action against MD Anderson which appears to be connected to

The Democratic Debates: Where Does A Centrist Go? By Leonard Zwelling I watched every minute of the two debates on June 26 and 27. Twenty candidates are a lot to get through and surely some would have advantages over the others. This was guaranteed as the moderators tended to ask questions of those at the

Broadway 2019: My New York Fix By Leonard Zwelling I’m a Houstonian now. I have spent as many years in Houston as I had in New York, Connecticut, Washington, D.C. and Durham, NC combined. But, scratch the surface just a hair and I’m still a New Yorker and I can’t get enough. Actually, that’s not

Delays By Leonard Zwelling The most common faculty complaint I heard as a vice president was, “you didn’t ask me; you didn’t tell me.” I think this is fair. In a country that used to be a democracy, most people still want a say in what happens to them and the relevant information when things

Term Limits: For Politicians, Chairmen, and Professors By Leonard Zwelling On May 28 I was listening to Chuck Todd on Meet The Press Daily on MSNBC. Yes, I was listening only as I was in the car and had access to MSNBC on Sirius/XM radio. Chuck and his guests, George Will and Charlie Sykes, both

Why The Chinese Faculty Firing (And Not Firing) Issue Is So Important By Leonard Zwelling It has been one of the most interesting episodes in my 35 years of watching (and participating in) interesting episodes at MD Anderson. I cannot remember any instances of group firings other than the Jewish group of a few years

In Praise Of Older Doctors: A Grateful Patient By Leonard Zwelling Don’t let anyone kid you. No matter what you are able to do at 70, you are officially an older American. You’ve been on Medicare for five years. You’ve been getting cheaper movie tickets for eight to ten. You’re not sixteen any more and