Len Zwelling

1968-Fifty Years Ago Or Yesterday? By Leonard Zwelling It’s June 6, 2018. Exactly fifty years ago, I awoke in my small bedroom in my parent’s house on the south shore of Long Island. I was home from Duke for a summer job at Long Island Jewish Hospital to get my resume ready for medical school. […]

Pardon Me By Leonard Zwelling It’s the ultimate Trump challenge to the rule of law. Even if you did something wrong; even if you got caught; even if you were tried by a jury of your peers and found guilty; and even if you went to jail; and even you are still there—don’t worry. All

Roseanne-Outrage? Please. No Surprise At All! By Leonard Zwelling One of my favorite stories is about Mr. Scorpion who needs to return home over a now rushing river after a torrential rainfall. He begs Mr. Frog for a ride across the stream after he guarantees Mr. Frog safe passage if he will carry Mr. Scorpion

Does The Group Choose The Leader Or Does The Leader Emerge From The Group? By Leonard Zwelling A good friend of mine said that America gets the leadership it deserves. This is a play on the quote from Joseph De Maistre that a democracy gets the government it deserves. Either way, in the current case

Why Didn’t Harvey Run? By Leonard Zwelling Even with his company in financial trouble and his own life a mess, I would have thought that Harvey Weinstein would have had a suitcase full of cash under his casting couch for emergencies and would have been smart enough to know that his situation qualifies as an

Trump Vs. Pisters: Unprepared Vs. Ready To Go By Leonard Zwelling Trump cancelled the summit scheduled for June 12 with North Korea (or not—who knows?). I guess he took offense at the nasty things a Kim Jun-Un underling had to say about Mike Pence. No matter. Trump wasn’t ready for the summit because he did

What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nytimes.com/section/magazine?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=TopBar&module=HPMiniNav&contentCollection=Magazine&WT.nav=page https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/magazine/health-issue-what-we-lose-with-data-driven-medicine.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront On Sunday, May 20, The NY Times Magazine published its Health Issue. These two articles couldn’t be in more stark contrast. The first is excerpted from Michael Pollan’s new book called How To Change Your Mind: What The New Science Of Psychedelics Teaches

Make No Mistake. It’s Worse Than Ever In Israel By Leonard Zwelling In his NY Times op-ed of May 18, David Brooks gives a good summary of where things are in Israel right now and how they got there. There is one underlying fact that needs to be accepted by all participants in any potential

Drunk With Conflict By Leonard Zwelling If there is one person you do not want to get a letter from, it is Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA). He recently sent one to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the NIH. It was about a large clinical trial. Apparently the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Is Israel Better Off With The American Embassy In Jerusalem? By Leonard Zwelling https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-netanyahu-and-a-day-of-dangerous-fictions-at-the-new-us-embassy-in-jerusalem?mbid=nl_Daily%20051518&CNDID=28650707&spMailingID=13513471&spUserID=MTQxOTMwNTA4OTI5S0&spJobID=1401356284&spReportId=MTQwMTM1NjI4NAS2 The articles are everywhere—in the paper and on the web. On Monday, May 14, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner opened the new American embassy in Jerusalem. Even though this city has been the capital of Israel since the country’s inception in