Over the last few months, I’ve heard many of my physician colleagues lament how difficult it is to buy a house–something I never heard prior to COVID. Given that physicians are some of the highest wage earners in the country (the lowest paying specialties all make it to the top 5% income bracket), this is… Read More »
“We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Nine years before Sir Winston Churchill became British prime minister, he wrote a 4000-word article about his predictions for what the future of the world may look like… Read More »
Were the lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes. Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As I noted in May, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 75,000 and 116,000 people in the… Read More »
I was a car thief once. OK, so not actually a car thief, but I remember the day when I certainly looked like a car thief. I didn’t have a dark hoody and gloves that seem important for car thieves in the movies but I did have the one piece of equipment that was important.… Read More »
By KIM BELLARD Those of us of a certain age, or anyone who loves classic movies, remember the famous scene in “The Graduate” when Benjamin Braddock is given what is intended as a helpful clue about the future. “Plastics,” one of his father’s friends says. “There’s a great future in plastics.” Well, we’re living in… Read More »