In 2000, the United States declared measles eliminated. The declaration did not mean the virus had disappeared. It meant the country still possessed the immunological and administrative capacity to prevent continuous transmission for at least twelve months, under the CDC definition of elimination. Vaccination coverage remained high enough to interrupt
When Mehmet Oz remarked that America was becoming “underbabied,” the reaction was immediate. Many people mocked the phrase. Others heard it as political pressure, demographic panic, or another attempt to turn family life into an ideological argument. Yet the strong reaction revealed something deeper than the awkwardness of the phrase
The resignation of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Martin Makary would ordinarily constitute little more than another episode in Washington’s familiar cycle of bureaucratic turnover. Senior officials depart. Interim appointees rotate through agencies. Administrations recalibrate priorities. Yet the significance of the present moment lies not in the resignation
What America Is Actually Losing
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world. Yet Americans struggle to secure one of the most basic functions a healthcare system is supposed to provide: sustained access to a primary-care physician. In many metropolitan areas, patients now wait
Author’s Note: The following essay is drawn from a forthcoming book manuscript currently in development. It is an excerpt from a larger chapter and is presented here in a provisional, condensed form. The work reflects more than thirty years of study of the Hebrew Scriptures as translated into the
Author’s Note: The following essay is drawn from a forthcoming book manuscript currently in development. It is an excerpt from a larger chapter and is presented here in a provisional, condensed form. The work reflects more than thirty years of study of the Hebrew Scriptures as translated into the
Author's Note: The reflections presented here form part of an extended reading of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Written in the late eighteenth century, the Groundwork remains a text of unusual severity, returning insistently to questions that admit of no easy resolution: what it
Author’s Note: The reflections presented here form part of an extended reading of Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Written in the late eighteenth century, the Groundwork remains a text of unusual severity, returning repeatedly to questions that admit of no easy resolution: what it is
