For years, Geron has bragged that “next year” it would be permitted to conduct human ESCR trials on people with newly acquired spinal cord injuries. And for years, that promise has been like the check in the mail that never comes. Finally, this summer, Geron was permitted to . . . . Continue Reading »
Some people are so lucky that they are indifferent to the good fortune luck provides. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Public Discourse , Matthew J. Milliner has written one of the best brief articles on conservatism and the arts that I have read in some time: To familiarize oneself with contemporary conservative ideas and publications often means choosing culture wars over culture. Conservatives are . . . . Continue Reading »
As the Dodgers fade into August, I was browsing Sports Illustrated and came across another of those unnatural-arm pictures of pitchers —this one of Jared Weaver during the great rookie start he had in 2006: How do these guys last even a season? . . . . Continue Reading »
USAToday has an alarming front page story today about a looming shortage of primary care physicians. From the story:Longer days, lower pay, less prestige and more administrative headaches have turned doctors away in droves from family medicine, presumed to be the frontline for wellness and . . . . Continue Reading »
The horror stories out of the UK and Canada are mounting—and serve a warning to this country against a nationalized system. The head of the Canadian Medical Association worries that her country’s single-payer-only system is . . . . Continue Reading »
This week First Things is hosting the first of our new online symposiums. For our inaugural effort we’ve a variety of thinkers to examine and reflect on Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate . Yesterday, Michael Novak illuminated the tensions inherent in the encyclical : I have been trying . . . . Continue Reading »
In 1873, a retired British Army captain became the agent for the 3rd Earl of Erne’s estates in County Mayo. It didn’t take long for the old soldier to find that he had taken the wrong job at the wrong time. Local tenant farmers, enraged at the high rents being charged by their English . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama is fond of creating a false paradigm about health care reform: It is either the current plans or “nothing.” That isn’t true, of course. Obama and the Democratic leadership made the same mistake that Hillary Clinton did back in 1993: He has allowed the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve spent the evening — well, what was left of it after dinner and baths and stories and the rosary and people wanting to keep their lights on after lights out and other people wanting to take showers upstairs at the same time that the dishes were being washed downstairs, which is . . . . Continue Reading »
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