Category: Health and Medicine

Is It Time to Quit Therapy?

Last summer, when Jonah Hill made headlines for his serious misuse of therapyspeak in leaked texts to his then-girlfriend, we at the Cut wondered: Are we over therapy? Has all this talk of “boundaries” and “attachment styles” started to seem cringe, exhausting, or simply unhelpful? When I asked […]

A Deep Dive into the Opioid Crisis

Part one, “Truest Crime.” From a series by E.R. doctor Matt Bivens Matt Bivens, M.D. May 07, 2024 Editor’s note: the following is the first essay in a series, written by former Moscow Times co-worker and current E.R. doctor Matt Bivens. The remaining features will be published serially […]

Sweden vs. the World! Three Years Later The Data Is IN! | Dr. Martin Kulldorf

Watch the full show: http://www.kimiversenshow.com Dr. Martin Kulldorff is an internationally well-known biostatistician and epidemiologist. During his career, he has developed new statistical and epidemiological methods for disease surveillance, including the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and the post-market drug and vaccine safety monitoring. Dr. […]

Synthetic Thinking

For nearly two decades, Jerome Groopman has been writing for The New York Review of Books about all matters medical. In our latest issue, he reviews Andrew Leland’s memoir, which recounts the writer’s experiences as his eyesight declined. “The history of blindness is marked by humiliation and exploitation,” Groopman writes, but […]

The Freedom to Die

A new book sheds light on our monstrous treatment of the mentally ill Leighton Woodhouse Apr 09, 2024 In 1961, the sociologist Erving Goffman published Asylums, a book of four essays on what the author called “total institutions.” Total institutions are places like army barracks, monasteries, or mental […]

The Ozempic Pushers

When Cut staffers started hearing from friends and family members that health-care providers were bringing up Ozempic in ways that left them feeling offended or betrayed, we asked features writer Angelina Chapin to look into exactly what kind of conversations were going down inside doctors’ offices. She spoke […]

Super Bowl Churchianity

By Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, February 22, 2024 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) On Super Bowl Sunday, February 11, tens of thousands of “churches” all over America shortened services, canceled services altogether or […]

The Empty Adderall Factory

For more than a year and a half, America has suffered from an acute shortage of Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, and other drugs used to treat ADHD. What’s causing the crisis? Increasingly desperate patients and parents have long been told that there are problems with “the supply chain,” that […]

Inside the Transgender Empire

Christopher F. Rufo Author, America’s Cultural Revolution The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement […]

Cancelled By The Left, Muzzled By The Right, What Did He Say?!?

Rav Arora is an independent journalist and podcaster based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Co-Founder along with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of The Illusion of Consensus, an independent, podcast-fuelled newsletter devoted to dismantling weaponized “consensus” in issues as far-reaching as COVID-19, transgender care, nutrition, and mental health. https://www.illusionconsensus.com/ […]

Menses Matters

Laura Kolbe Month to Month What we as a society prefer not to know about periods extends beyond menstruation itself to its management and the management of women’s health more broadly. Christine Smallwood Time Unregained In La Captive, Chantal Akerman’s adaptation of Marcel Proust’s La Prisonnière, she offers us a […]