There’s a classic joke in legal circles about a doctor on trial for malpractice.  The prosecuting attorney reads down a list of 12 men, pausing to ask if each was the doctor’s patient.  Each time, the man admits that each was.  Then  the prosecutor asks,  “And are these men

23andMe was founded by Anne Wojcick and named for the  23 pairs of chromosomes that comprise the human  DNA.  She created the company because she believes people should have access to their biological  data.  The FDA disagrees and now her company is in a tussle with the governmen

Being a vegetarian is something I don’t talk about much.  The decision was mine and I made it when I was 11, to the chagrin of my mother.   Back then, mealtimes became so cantankerous,  she hauled me off to the doctor for a lecture on nutrition.  Her strategy backfired.  She�

Feeling out of control in your life?  Join the club.  Not only is there a growing gap between rich and poor around the world, but the gap between society’s leaders and the man in the street is enough to leave anyone queasy.  Take, for example, the gap between the way scientists v

James Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust writes in “Cultural War,” that when Turkey’s Minister of Culture, Ertugrul Gunay, suggests “each and every antiquity in any part  of the world should eventually go back to its homeland,” the gentleman is in error. (F

The Sun, a British newspaper, has laid to rest a long time tradition: the Page 3 girls.  For the last 45 years, every Monday, loyal fans turned to page 3 to be “greeted with a photo of a smiling, topless model.”  (“The News,” The Week, January 30, 2015 pg. 14.)  But no more

Ralph Douthat of The New York Times raises a question worth considering.  Can we defend free speech without weakening it by carving out exceptions? (“Je Suis Charlie! Testing the limits of free speech, The Week, January 21,2015 pg. 16.)  Some prominent universities that purport t

Since museums are run by people, it should come as no surprise that competition exists for the patronage of the ultra rich among these institutions.  At the moment, a war of sorts is going on between New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Until

“The Hard Sell,” is an amusing complaint by writer Adam Resnick about well-meaning friends.  (Town&Country, 2/15 pgs. 82-84.)  In his case, the friend was a woman who insisted he watch a foreign film called, Lovers of the Arctic Circle.  When she told him about the plot, it

The story didn’t make the major headlines of the day, but it caught my eye.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that in the interest of preserving civil liberties, federal law enforcement officials would no longer be allowed to seize property without evidence that a crime