Len Zwelling

Bayh-Dole For Jocks By Leonard Zwelling It’s tough to remember that there are stories out there of significance beyond presidential impeachment and the burning of California, but there are. One of the most important for college athletics is the fact that the NCAA may finally be loosening its rules on allowing young collegiate athletes to […]

Has Academic Medicine Become A Socialist System And Might The Capitalism Of Big Pharma Be Bringing It Back? By Leonard Zwelling In David Brooks’ op-ed on December 6 in The New York Times he reveals a surprising fact about himself. In his youth, he was a socialist. As he is one of the few conservative

What If The Democrats Threw Out The Calendar? By Leonard Zwelling The last two blogs have focused on the issue of President Trump’s pending impeachment. First, there really is little doubt that Mr. Trump did some impeachable stuff. There’s more than enough evidence whether you include the violations of the emoluments clause or the findings

The Real Problem With Impeachment: Time By Leonard Zwelling Jonathan Turley’s claim in front of the House Judiciary Committee that the current rush to impeachment is just that, precipitous, is an argument with some merit. There are many people who ought to be testifying but who have not. They include John Bolten, Mick Mulvaney, Rick

All In By Leonard Zwelling On December 3, the House Intelligence Committee majority report on its investigation into the alleged impeachable misconduct of the President of the United States dropped to the media. The only really new news was the volume of phone calls between the White House or the Office of Management and Budget

Micromanaging: Trump, The SEALs, And Incidents Of My Own By Leonard Zwelling https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-spencer-i-was-fired-as-navy-secretary-heres-what-ive-learned-because-of-it/2019/11/27/9c2e58bc-1092-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html This opinion piece in The Washington Post is by former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer. He was fired by Defense Secretary Mark Esper after having lost the confidence of Esper and of President Trump with regard to the way he handled the case

OK, Boomer: What We Left To Posterity By Leonard Zwelling “OK, Boomer” has become a dismissive meme of the millennial and GenZ cohorts that connotes the “out-of-touchness” of those of us in our early 70s as well as the unwillingness of the Baby Boomers to cede power and authority to the younger people in their

Can Israel Snap Out Of It? By Leonard Zwelling This editorial in The New York Times does a great job of outlining the dilemma facing the nation of Israel today. To be brief, it does not have a working government and hasn’t has had one for close to a year. It has had two elections

The Irishman: Redemption Through A Crack In The Door By Leonard Zwelling Martin Scorsese makes movies about gangsters. He also makes movies about real people, including Jesus (The Last Temptation of Christ). Some of his best movies are about real people who happen to be gangsters. The Irishman is such a film. It’s not good.

It No Longer Matters What Happened. It’s Only Whether Anyone Cares By Leonard Zwelling The grinding hearing before the House Intelligence Committee was anything but must-see TV. It was a bore. I’m glad it’s over, if it’s over. There are many left worth questioning, but they are all among the unwilling. Pompeo, Bolten, Pence and