Should women’s health be approached on the basis of women’s biological differences from men or on the basis of assuming that biology informs every aspect of women’s health? Should the federal government address health care at all?

If the goal is progress, the superior path remains the free-market alternative: To wit, enforce property rights and prosecute fraud under existing statutes, and refrain from constructing a new federal apparatus that recreates the intermediary structures blockchain was invented to challenge.

Many might expect the private reflections of the nation’s most influential public health official to be dominated by public health challenges. Instead, amid meetings, phone calls and official duties, Fauci repeatedly paused to catalogue glowing newspaper profiles and celebrity praise.