My kid – my 31-year-old “kid” – co-directed a movie that, so far, is showing at film festivals in Toronto, Tel Aviv, Seattle and Provincetown. I attended the Seattle premiere last week, saw it twice on the big screen, and was impressed. Is my rave review of Susanne Bartsch: On Top the result of “It’s […]
Read More →Forget kindness, helping our fellow man and personal stories of tragedy from people who can’t afford to get well. It’s a valid discussion, but it takes the healthcare focus off logical issues and tries to tap into emotions. Here’s the big thing no one admits in the healthcare debate: The U.S. healthcare system is screwed […]
Read More →Originally published in The Orlando Sentinel, March 26, 2017 For true human equality, you need the white guys. In the big scheme of things, social justice is a war, and equality fights for women or blacks or gays are battles. A marginalized group can demand anything it wants day after day, but if the majority […]
Read More →Why do we spend so much time discussing the color of the Band-Aid and so little time discussing the depth of the wound? (A metaphor: The wound is healthcare; the Band-Aid is health insurance.) We discuss the details of competing health care plans from Republicans and Democrats, but we spend almost no time on the […]
Read More →Trump didn’t do it on purpose. It’s not his “great again” calling card, and it’s not a belief that my country could be trampled by a nonexistent army of rogue immigrants. Reason 1: Taking achievements for granted It’s become clear that decade after decade and generation after generation, the United States of America traveled the […]
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