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Marginalizing Care: What Happens when Healthcare and …

WebSpring Arbor, MI In our age of austerity and cost-cutting, the two industries currently under the microscope are healthcare and education. The gains in productivity …

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Ten Key Questions Framing the Health Care Debate

WebIt is the stated opinion of Mr. Obama, the Congressional Budget Office, Rush Limbaugh, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and The …

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Loving Education in the Time of COVID

WebThis essay is part of a mini symposium on the opportunities and challenges educators face in the wake of a year-and-a-half of COVID. You can view all the …

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What Health Insurance Does to Prices

WebLast summer, my youngest son was on a church trip on the other side of the country, when he hurt his hand. A deep gash on his middle finger required immediate attention at a …

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From Endoscopy to Colonoscopy: One Man’s Strange and …

WebBeneath these critiques of the American medical system and the biological mysteries of the human body throbs a more existential question: How does one deal with …

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Farmers, Physiologists, and Daylight Saving

WebThe concept now known as daylight saving emerged after the industrial revolution and because of it. In Great Britain around the turn of the 20 th century, …

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The Localist Theory of Charles Marohn’s Wonderfully …

WebRussell Arben Fox grew up milking cows and bailing hay in Spokane Valley, WA, but now lives in Wichita, KS, where he runs the History & Politics and the Honors …

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Ross Douthat's Landscape of Suffering

WebFebruary 2, 2022. This is the second essay in a three-part series of reflections on Ross Douthat’s recent book The Deep Places. The final one will run on Friday. Greer, SC. …

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With One Eye Squinted: R.R. Reno and Living Life in a …

WebAberdeen, SD. The COVID-19 pandemic has produced challenges and struggles that few of us could have imagined even a handful of months ago. The isolation …

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Can Health Care Be Local

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My Mask, My Choice

WebBoise, ID. One mantra of those who favor abortion rights is “My Body, My Choice.” As the team at Choice42 winsomely argue, a more appropriate catchphrase …

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The Stories We Share

WebDouthat is, I think, proposing a conversation. As a low-level functionary in the medical-industrial complex, I would like to take him up on that offer. There may be much …

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Health Subsidiarity, or Solidarity, or Socialism (Take Your Pick)

Web[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]. Wichita, KS. The debate over health care reform in the Senate has moved into overdrive, with one possible compromise following …

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The Diseases that Kill Republics: Insights from Ancient Rome’s

WebItaly’s tragic status as one of the worst-hit nations is a reminder of its predecessor, the Roman Republic, which endured dozens of epidemics in a history that …

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Community Greening in The Lord of the Rings

WebConnected to his work as a gardener, Sam is a curator of local ecological knowledge and traditions. Sam knows his ecological context.When Ted Sandyman, a …

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Calvino’s Leonia and the Weight of History

WebAtlanta, GA. Italo Calvino’s 1972 book Invisible Cities is pitched somewhere between novel and poetry. It consists of 55 short descriptions of imaginary cities, …

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Flatten the Curve and Respect the Experts

WebOnce again a crisis of expertise among elite Americans. The last one — whether evangelical elites (an oxymoron in my estimation) were out of touch with …

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Remembering After Coronavirus

WebShortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks, Wendell Berry wrote, “The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of September 11 without …

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Would Natty Bumpo Have a Crisis on his Hands if his Health …

WebWashington, CT. The unanimously anointed Soothsayer of the American Republic, Alexis de Tocqueville is deservedly credited with divining the essential and …

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