Len Zwelling

Stepford Docs On The Bayou: Not The MD Anderson Way By Leonard Zwelling What so struck me in 1984 when I came to MD Anderson was the enormous tolerance the institution had for people with—how do I put this—different ideas about cancer, its treatment and how to interact with other people. The place was a […]

Contempt And Trump And Russia By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/michael-cohen-steele-dossier.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Two opinion pieces in Sunday’s New York Times (March 3) reveal a major problem thread running through the American psyche and how it affects our national politics. In the first piece, Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute think tank, notes the awful toll that

What Should A Chief Scientific Officer Do? By Leonard Zwelling MD Anderson has had vice presidents for research, chief academic officers, and provosts. I am not at all sure it ever had a chief scientific officer until recently. The duties of the CSO cannot be those of the chief academic officer because there is also

Michael Cohen: Caught Throwing Spit Balls By Leonard Zwelling The spectacle of a lesser mob boss coming clean in front of Congress was not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s not all that unusual either. Think Joe Valachi, 1963. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nEQgbgi0yA On Wednesday, February 27, Michael Cohen, one of Donald Trump’s former lawyers and his

The Real American Dilemma By Leonard Zwelling It is not often that so much is explained in so small a space. The New York Times op-ed page on February 25, 2019 contains two columns that go a long way to explaining the chaos in America and the reason Donald Trump was able to wrest the

Boredom And The Need For An Activist Congress By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/politics-has-become-boring-againand-thats-a-relief-11550619773 https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-emergency-is-test-for-congress-11550619983?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 Two op-eds in the Wall Street Journal of February 20 answer a lot of questions about how the government in Washington is working—or not. In the first, F. H. Buckley of the Scalia Law School makes the point that Americans get bored

Measles By Leonard Zwelling I’m basically a libertarian. I believe that anyone should be allowed to do whatever he or she wants as long as it does not hurt anyone else. I am a strict capitalist who believes in supply and demand. I believe that people can strive to make as much money as they

What Progressives Don’t Get About Israel By Leonard Zwelling Bret Stephens has become one of my favorite columnists on the staff of The New York Times. His clear-eyed, clear-headed opinion pieces seem to me neither left nor right leaning, but rather centered on common sense, which is always uncommon. This piece in The Times on

Institutional Stories By Leonard Zwelling Tim Kreider wrote a very thoughtful op-ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday, February 10. In essence it was about “America’s War Of Stories” or the competing beliefs/truths/facts that are circulating through the Internet and influencing the way people perceive their neighbors and their country. It should be

What Constitutes A Real Crisis By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-trump-handle-a-foreign-crisis-11549583825 https://www.wsj.com/articles/bezos-vs-the-enquirer-could-be-a-watershed-11549667933 The two op-eds in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal couldn’t have been more different (February 9). In the first the stalwart Peggy Noonan makes a great case for the luck of the Trump team in not having to face a true foreign crisis in its first