Len Zwelling

The Plot Against America By Leonard Zwelling          What if?          Nothing can grab your attention more than an alternative telling of history, especially history that is so vivid in the mind and so crucial to our way of life.          The seminal event of the 20th century was the Second World War. It derived […]

The Academic Laboratory As Small Business By Leonard Zwelling          In The New York Times on April 11, David Sax makes a critical point about small businesses being the lifeblood of the communities in which they operate. It is the small business owners who support the school silent auction and who are struggling to deal

You Would Think Academics Would Think Straighter By Leonard Zwelling file:///Users/leonardzwelling/Downloads/mockS5coverpagetemplate_ccell2988.pdf          This is a journal pre-proof of a letter written to Cancer Cell from investigators at MD Anderson’s Department of Radiation Oncology.          It makes an eloquent case that decisions made by the leaders of many academic institutions to shut, shutter, and deep-freeze a

The Corona Vote: Thumbs Up Or Down On Trump’s Performance By Leonard Zwelling          In a long, complicated and detailed article in The New York Times on April 12, a group of reporters relates the time line of the coronavirus crisis as it pertains to the decision-making of the White House. What did Mr. Trump

The Swedish Control Arm By Leonard Zwelling          In a real surprise, Sweden, of all places, is doing an experiment most countries would consider risky. Restaurants and schools are open. They have not taken the approach most of the world has taken to go to the extremes of social distancing. The question is whether social

What I’m Trying To Say By Leonard Zwelling          In the Wall Street Journal on April 8, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. makes some important points about the current mess the U.S. is in. And let’s be clear, that mess is not the coronavirus, but America’s response to it.          And as a digression, let’s not

Without Firing A Shot By Leonard Zwelling          For many years, the United States prepared for nuclear war. Once the Russians acquired a nuclear device the arms race was on and mutually assured destruction of the type immortalized in Dr. Strangelove came into play. If the United States was vulnerable, if our way of life

What’s Really Happening: What You Won’t See On The Evening News By Leonard Zwelling          There is only one news story right now and it’s not the inexorable progress of the coronavirus to bring the United States to its knees. It’s the fact that most of the media is ignoring what really happened, because what

Elective Cancer Surgery Is An Oxymoron By Leonard Zwelling          In the March 31, 2020 edition of The Houston Chronicle, Marc Boom (CEO of Methodist) and Peter Pisters (president of MD Anderson) penned an op-ed about the roles that hospitals must take in the coronavirus crisis. It was a platitude-laden piece about traditional exercises in

Fear, Dissonance, Wills, And Perspective By Leonard Zwelling          We are in the middle of it right now, and despite what anyone out there says, we really don’t know when it ends or how. We don’t know what it means or what our response to it will mean for future generations. It will be one