If “new things” are what have brought us to this crisis, then it is “old things” that become the weapons of the counter-revolution. Faith, family, community, and nature itself ground us in the reality of who we really are as humans.
To Reclaim Our Nature Continue Reading
This isn’t merely about the legacy of an individual but an urgent call for introspection and reckoning with the values and principles we hold dear as a society and a scientific community. The soul of science is at stake here, and the shadows cast by authoritarian tendencies threaten to engulf the vibrant, robust tradition of scientific debate and discourse, replacing it with a monologue of power and control.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Own “Gain-of-Function” Continue Reading
Fauci will be remembered as a consequential figure for his contributions. But he will also be remembered as a cautionary tale of what can happen when too much power is invested in a single person for too long.
Anthony Fauci: The Man Who Thought He Was Science Continue Reading
The confirmation hearings for Jay Bhattacharya as secretary of the National Institutes of Health just ended. Nothing played out like I had expected. And yet, now that I think about it, it played out exactly as I should have expected.
Is This What Winning Looks Like? Continue Reading
Some of our fellows, writers, and scholars have made some recommendations for insightful books that can help frame up some of the complexities of our time. They don’t explain everything but they can surely help us toward greater understanding.
What Should We Be Reading? Continue Reading
Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept, as we have been enduring in the last few years, but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most certainly survivable, as survivors of childhood sexual abuse and assault survivors can attest. We may even transcend and thrive, be strengthened, and become guides for others.
What It Means to Lose Trust Continue Reading
One can only hope a counterrevolution will take place, a Great Reawakening, that will lead Westerners back to the core principles of both genuine science and the faith tradition that inspired Zev Zelenko to become a great doctor and an even greater human being.
Zev Zelenko, Physician and Moralist Continue Reading
Lacking the big-picture thinking and inner convictions to make tough calls, our ostensible leaders let themselves be pushed around by scientists whose ideas they did not understand. Nor did they have the guts to balance them with other measures of societal health. Mix in the fear of angering the Twitter mob and you get a recipe for timid, uninspired orations.
Where Were the Great Covid Speeches? Continue Reading
Maybe if people had embraced mundanity, those dull little businesses would have survived, ordinary child neurological development would have progressed, schooling would have happened in normal, mundane fashion, and the world would have come through the latest crisis as…normal, mundane, ordinary. Maybe embrace isn’t a strong enough suggestion. Maybe we should actually celebrate the mundane. If we do, in the next crisis, we’ll be better off.
The Mundane Can Protect Us Continue Reading
Orwell argues that these language patterns destroy truth and beauty and clarity; they cloud thinking and collapse culture with their obfuscations. When reading or listening to such speech, we find ourselves mired in the muck of sloppy language that confuses, disorients, and depresses, and in the extreme, such language gets people killed, because if we don’t question it, allow it to frustrate and anger us, it lulls and numbs our minds.
Bureaucratic Doublespeak Gets People Killed Continue Reading
