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Trust has long been the foundation of the physician–patient relationship. Patients rely on healthcare professionals not only for treatment but also for honest communication about benefits, risks, uncertainties, and alternatives. In recent years, however, debates surrounding public health policy, vaccine mandates, and institutional transparency have challenged that trust. Questions once confined to academic journals have […]

Medical assistance in dying is only the entry point. Across a full hour with Dr. Randy Bock, medical writer and author Gabrielle Bauer worked through cancellation, the Great Barrington Declaration, a rejected JAMA article on Zika, the Kamloops “unmarked graves” story, autism’s diagnostic explosion, and gender ideology — all circling the same question: how does […]

What happens when a physician decides that professional responsibility requires questioning the system rather than following it? That is the central question behind the story of Dr. Mark Trozzi, a Canadian emergency physician whose career changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trozzi entered the pandemic with nearly three decades of experience in emergency medicine. He […]

Few public debates have become as politically charged as the discussion surrounding DEI hiring and meritocracy. Questions about how universities, corporations, and public institutions evaluate talent now extend beyond hiring practices to broader concerns about free speech, institutional trust, and opportunities for younger generations. In the interview, Aron Ravin reflects on his experiences as a […]

The MAHA movement may have begun as a health message, but it has become something much larger: a political coalition assembled around a simple proposition that cuts across traditional party lines—America should become healthier. That proposition sounds almost impossible to oppose. Yet the politics surrounding Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, are anything but simple. […]

Pain medicine has undergone a profound transformation over the past two decades. What was once a field guided primarily by clinical experience and physician judgment has increasingly become one governed by regulatory oversight, documentation requirements, and fear of professional consequences. For patients living with chronic pain, that transformation often feels deeply personal. Instead of entering […]

What happens when men lose the spaces where they can simply be men? That is one of the central questions raised by James L. Nuzzo in a wide-ranging conversation about men’s health, sex differences, masculinity, sports, universities, and the disappearance of male-only spaces. Nuzzo, an exercise physiologist with a PhD in physiology, describes a career […]

Theodore Dalrymple and the Courage to Say What We See What happens when an intellectual culture becomes afraid of obvious truths? That question sits at the center of the work of Theodore Dalrymple, the pen name of British physician, psychiatrist, author, and social critic Anthony Daniels. His unusual perspective comes not primarily from academic theory […]

What if one of the biggest problems in modern public life is not that there are too few warnings, but that there are too many? That is one of the central questions raised by journalist and author John Tierney in this wide-ranging conversation about willpower, public health, journalism, media bias, COVID lockdowns, human progress, and […]

For decades, Western democracies operated under a quiet assumption: as long as economies grew, institutions functioned, and individual rights expanded, society would naturally become more peaceful, prosperous, and unified. The expectation was that education, procedural fairness, and economic opportunity would gradually reduce tribalism, soften historical grievances, and create a stable liberal order. Yet recent years […]