Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored? Affordable, safe, generic anticonvulsants restore homeostasis to the brains of chronic drinkers, but they are not being promoted. Frank Celia 28 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland When should we allow a person to hasten her own death? Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin 7 Aug 2023 · 25 min read
Neuroaffirmation—A Therapist’s Concerns I worry about the unintended consequences of the neurodiversity movement, particularly when their demands are promulgated religiously and without nuance. Rita Range 29 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
The Limits of Self Love Scholars and activists in the field of fat studies do not believe that there is an obesity-related health crisis at all. Jack Butler 27 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
Four Corners' Failure In its treatment of gender clinics, the flagship investigative program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation failed to present crucial evidence. Bernard Lane 21 Jul 2023 · 11 min read
Heavy Lifting Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession. Joe Lombardo 7 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
Death on Demand: Cautionary Tales from Canada Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, once reserved for the terminally ill, is increasingly attracting applicants experiencing poverty and depression. Margaret Wente 1 Feb 2023 · 15 min read
The Educational Ship Comes to a Shuddering Halt School closings put strain on families and students alike. Jenny Griebenow 23 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them. Robert J. Morris 8 Jan 2023 · 9 min read
The Months the Earth Stood Still Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself? George Case 19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
Disease and Deception The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability. Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Oct 2022 · 12 min read
Spinning the Tavistock Story Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology. Bernard Lane 23 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering Coping is not enough. We must strive to live. Samuel Kronen 5 Sep 2022 · 27 min read
Benevolent Cruelty America’s homeless problem is the product of good intentions and apathy. A new approach is needed. Adam G. Walterbach 30 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
We Won’t Force Addicts to Change We are wasting tremendous resources on ineffective, mandatory approaches to addiction. Craig K. Svensson 23 Aug 2022 · 14 min read