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  • The Pleasure and Pain of Nostalgia

    The Pleasure and Pain of Nostalgia0

    Nostalgia derives from the Greek words “algos,” meaning grief or pain, and “nostos,” homecoming. In centuries past, physicians considered nostalgia a disease. In the first two years of the Civil War, for instance, Union army doctors diagnosed this intense longing for home and family as a serious and debilitating illness, with 2,588 reported cases and “13 deaths

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  • The Plague of Presentism

    The Plague of Presentism12

    Presentism: Now there’s one ugly duckling of a word. My online dictionary defines presentism as “uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.” To my surprise, the 40-year-old dictionary on my shelf also contains this eyesore of a word and definition. To be present,

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  • The Pitfalls of Ethnic Pay Gaps

    The Pitfalls of Ethnic Pay Gaps0

    British Prime Minister Theresa May is obsessed with measuring pay gaps between social groups. She championed the requirement for companies with more than 250 workers to measure the so-called “gender pay gap.” Now she wishes companies to measure the “ethnic pay gap.” Yet these measurements, hailed by champions of intersectional theory, produce deceptive statistics that

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  • The Pill Increases Risk of Depression Among Young Women by 130%

    The Pill Increases Risk of Depression Among Young Women by 130%0

    “When you review the entirety of the literature and ask, ‘Do hormonal contraceptives cause depression?,’ the answer is definitely no.” In 2020 that was the message of Professor Katherine Wisner, a psychiatrist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Of course, some women who take contraceptive do get depressed, but Wisner and her colleagues knew why:

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  • The Philosophy of America’s Pastime

    The Philosophy of America’s Pastime0

    Baseball is back. Yesterday, the Yankees beat the Nationals in D.C. yesterday with “do as I say, not as I do” exemplar Dr. Anthony Fauci throwing an embarrassing first pitch). Meanwhile, the Dodgers beat the Giants in Los Angeles, where one brave relief pitcher took a stand against the Black Lives Matter political movement otherwise sweeping through professional

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  • The Persistence of Memory and #MeToo

    The Persistence of Memory and #MeToo0

    The recent revelations about Harvey Weinstein have precipitated hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse. Many of the complainants are now adults, even middle-aged. But most of the alleged events took place when the victims were young – teenagers or even children. One of Weinstein’s accusers recounted events that occurred some twenty years previously; another accused

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