Len Zwelling

Posted on the train from London to St. Andrews Reform the Process of Picking Those Among Whom We Can Pick To Be President By Leonard Zwelling          The results of the New York primary are in. The two frontrunners swept the delegate count in their home state and, in so doing, may have sealed their […]

Eye In The Sky By Leonard Zwelling          If you can imagine Helen Mirren as a British Army colonel in charge of tracking down and eliminating terrorists using American drone capability, you have suspended sufficient disbelief to enjoy this excellent feature film and the first of this year worth seeing.          It appears to be

Some Passover Soul Two videos. One from a friend and blog reader, the other from son Richard. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v3xjf1kGlg https://www.facebook.com/alan.silver.372/videos/10153022777808225

The Game Is Rigged By Leonard Zwelling          Mr. Trump is likely on his way to the GOP nomination for President. It is not, however, a sure thing. Either Trump will have to secure the necessary 1237 delegates before the convention in Cleveland or a floor fight may ensue and he could lose either by

The Many Moonshots of 2016: Moonshots/Schmoonshots By Leonard Zwelling          Look out green cheese. The Earth is taking aim at the moon and these are serious people doing the shooting.          Of course the first moon shooter is Dr. DePinho who has been on this space voyage since he got to Anderson in 2011 and

The Company You Keep By Leonard Zwelling          Most of us have had the experience. We have a new friend. The parents don’t approve or our other friends don’t either. It could be sheer prejudice–racial, religious or sexual orientation. It could be that the new friend is from the wrong church, or wrong school, or

The Mess Made By Pubescent Boys By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-mess-has-become-his-message-1459466943          Peggy, Peggy, Peggy, how prescient can you be?          In this perfectly timed opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal on April 2, Peggy Noonan once again shows why she is the premier pundit in all of punditdom.          Of course, Ms. Noonan is

Immersion Day-A Truly Fabulous Idea for Boards and Executive Leaders By Leonard Zwelling          In the March 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Richard Bock and Ronald Paulus describe an action they took at the Mission Health system in Ashville, NC to educate their board about what it is doctors actually

Hidden in Plain Sight: The MD Anderson “annual report 2015” By Leonard Zwelling          It makes fascinating reading, this “annual report” (lower case letters on cover). But I’m like everyone else. First, I look at the pictures.          I was shocked at how few of the faculty pictured in the human interest stories were high

A Long Slog By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-defeat-radical-jihadism-1458862004          ISIS is not interested in shared governance.          ISIS wants a Caliphate and wants to call all the rest of us who do not adhere to their version of radical Islam heretics and martyrs for a bad cause. This is not a maybe. This is a for