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Joel Levine, MD
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February 14, 2017
Selective outrage, selective memoryChristian refugees from the Middle East have met any rational criteria for protection.
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July 28, 2016
Bill Clinton’s big convention lieTuesday night, in Bill Clinton’s sorcery, we saw the core of amorality that has corrupted both of the Clintons' public lives for decades.
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July 19, 2016
The pernicious idea of white privilegePrivilege is an interesting word, given how it has been used in the past.
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July 10, 2016
Racism: Real and PresumedIn the two recent police shootings, it was the fear of being shot, race notwithstanding, by someone who had or was thought to have a gun.
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January 3, 2015
Bill Clinton's ImmunityWhat if a newly liberated but still compartmentalized Bill does it all again? What if the woman decides, as was not the fashion in the 90s, that she was abused by his power and emotionally damaged by his advances?
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July 28, 2014
A Tunnel Too FarHamas may finally have provoked a biblical (that is, Old-Testament) response from Israel.
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April 28, 2013
Kurtz Would Have Loved Them: 'Horror and moral terror are your friends'In the wake of Boston, Americans are having a hard time with the fact that the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave does not always work its magic on the young foreigners who come here to live.
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October 24, 2011
The Growth of the Health Sector: Bigger Doesn't Always Mean SmarterThe Obama administration believes that any health professional can provide quality if guided by enough checklists and clinical cookbook recipes written by far-removed health care regulators. This is not reform, but retreat.
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September 20, 2011
Why the Health Care System Can't Cure CancerTo understand the real reason why we have not achieved our health care ambitions, we should ask what many editorials scrupulously avoid: why was American medicine so good for so long?
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July 8, 2011
When the Doctor Goes Home: The Coming Indifference of American MedicineThe migration of doctors from business ownership to shift workers means that we will be cared for at times of our greatest need in very different ways.