Category: Health and Medicine

3 cheers for the pig man

By Noah Millan, The Week It may not always feel like it, but we live in an age of miracles. The most recent: the first successful transplant of a heart from a non-human mammal to a human being. This was not the first successful xenotransplantation of a working […]

Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again

By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]

Schools and COVID

By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic Omicron is leading to school closures and reigniting familiar debates around the safety of in-person learning. In Chicago, public schools remain closed amid a dispute with the teachers’ union over when to switch to remote instruction. Districts in other parts of the […]

Why Progressives Defend Drug Dealers

This article inadvertently or indirectly points out the limitations of “criminal justice reform” within the context of the current state-centric system. The problems that this writer is describing are not rooted in the claim that drug decriminalization has gone “too far.” The problem is that drug decriminalization has […]