Confronting the Consequences of ‘Industrial’ Health Care

Last August, when it seemed as if the very concept of a public debate over health care reform was being reduced to one aggressive shout-fest after another, I raised the following question: Is there any country other than the United States that classifies...

Insulting the Victim?

Ina Fried has continued to track the Sidekick data-loss story for CNET News. However, as I tried to indicate on Sunday, this is a case where we need to go beyond the “facts of the story,” so to speak, and interpret those facts in an effort...

The Death of Ernest May

The time stamp for the Associated Press announcement on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site is 4 AM this morning. The announcement was of the death of Harvard University history professor and former dean Ernest May. May’s name has come up...