The Coming Age of Dispersion
New digital connections could incubate a new urban culture unlike any we have seen.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Health
A collection of 176 posts
The Complicated Science of a Medically Assisted Death
Physicians started to prepare families for the possibility of a delayed death.
Anita Hannig
· 12 min read
Dealing With a Once-In-A-Century Pathogen
Measures implemented too early are deemed “alarmist,” if implemented too late, “negligent.”
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
Masculinity, Emasculation, and Breast Cancer in Men
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.
Richard Wassersug
· 7 min read
Losing the Mandate of Heaven
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?
Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.
Brian Eaton
· 5 min read
Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs
Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.
Marcus Evans
· 19 min read
Gambling in a Time of Despair
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 9 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read
No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’
The fact is, no child is actually born in the wrong body.
Diet Reporting—the Real Fake News
Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens.
John Staddon
· 7 min read
Preventable Deaths and the Need for Data-Driven Journalism
My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media.
Evan Balkcom
· 6 min read
I’m a Feminist Mother. But I Don’t Need a ‘Feminist Birth’
A birth away from hospital can be seen as a feminist act of resistance. But it’s not a form of resistance I want to join.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 11 min read
Rationalizing Modern Drug Prejudices
Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.
Matthew Blackwell
· 14 min read
The Rise of ‘Drag Kids’—and the Death of Gay Culture
There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.
Sky Gilbert
· 13 min read