Len Zwelling

Doing The Right Thing By The Newest Americans By Leonard Zwelling I am not the first person to note that the United States is a nation of immigrants. I myself am only second generation American for three-fourths of me. My paternal grandmother was actually born here, but the rest of my grandparents were not. Among […]

Volunteers Of Houston By Leonard Zwelling Toilet paper. A mound of rolls that needed to be divided into plastic bags, two rolls per bag. This bag of two was then filled with two rolls of paper towels. The four roll bags were tossed on another mound. By two PM Saturday both mounds were high. Two

Absorbing The Water By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html Houston has never seen flooding or any other natural disaster like the floods that accompanied Hurricane Harvey. And no other city has responded as did Houston to such a disaster. The emotional toll on the city might be every bit as heavy as that wrought by the storm

Leadership Is A Series Of Decisions By Leonard Zwelling As the rain continues to pelt down on Houston, so has the criticism of Mayor Turner for not having evacuated the city. But the mayor has been quite clear about his decision processes. First, where were people to go on Friday? The storm covered the immediate

An Admission Of Error: The Regents Blink By Leonard Zwelling If there is one thing that I have learned over my 33 years in Texas, it is that the Board of Regents of the UT System makes no mistakes. Chancellors do. Vice Chancellors do. Presidents do, but Regents, not so much. Until now. There is

EXTRA: A Superb Choice In Every Way By Leonard Zwelling Peter Pisters is the new president of MD Anderson and this blog is thrilled. What an excellent choice! Peter is a real clinician and researcher with a degree in health care management. He is coming from a huge job in Canada suggesting that he is

When The Leader Is The Message By Leonard Zwelling Donald Trump is really stuck now. After running a hate-filled campaign that appealed to the basest of American instincts and successfully parlaying racist and white superiority rhetoric into an election victory, he cannot now espouse a message of tolerance. And, even if he could, he won’t.

The Eclipse And Climate Change: If You Believe In One, Why Not Believe In The Other? EXTRA: My letter to the Duke Chronicle By Leonard Zwelling The occurrence of a solar eclipse is magical. But what is more magical is that it is not magical at all. It is entirely predictable and explicable, down to

Has The World Gone Nuts? By Leonard Zwelling This is now a legitimately reasonable question to ask. The President of the United States is going toe-to-toe with a rogue regime in North Korea in a very dangerous game of chicken in which one miscalculation could be very fatal. (I am not really sure if anything

There Is Much For The MD Anderson Faculty To Consider By Leonard Zwelling Any thoughtful American is deep in thought these days. Everyone is trying to make sense of a world gone mad. Crises are being provoked on the Korean Peninsula simply because a bad actor has done exactly what he and his family have