Healthcare: A Question of Morals or Economics?

→  August 31st, 2006  →  Blog

I’ve been doing a lot of reading of Allie’s recent posts on healthcare since she’s now in what looks like a very interesting class on public health policy. In her first post, she responds to the question of whether or not health care is a right or a commodity and answers that it ought to [...]

Win the War on Terror?

→  June 8th, 2006  →  Blog

Is the United States winning the war on terror? A better question to ask (and something I don’t see asked enough) is — what constitutes winning? A better way to cast the question of whether or not the US is winning its war on terror is to ask what constitutes winning say — a war [...]

To Torture or Not to Torture

→  April 28th, 2006  →  Blog

I’m positive someone reading this is going to (at least at first) think that I’m some horribly evil person for even entertaining the notion that torture can be legitimate, so I’ll preface this little rambling by just saying that this is an exploration on the lack of understanding between two sides of an issue. The [...]

Conquering Cancer with Private Medicine

→  April 20th, 2006  →  Blog

suffice to say, I consider this to be very interesting and somewhat close to the truth. Conquering Cancer with Private Medicineby Michael D. Tanner Few things in life are as terrifying as a diagnosis of cancer. But for millions in the United States, the news just got a little bit better. Death rates for those [...]

Democracy?

→  February 6th, 2006  →  Blog

It often strikes me as funny the single-minded focus on “democracy” that the Bush administration and countless other Americans have. We are supposedly better because we are “a democracy” or “we have Britney” (ok maybe not so much that last one). Don’t get me wrong. America, in my mind at least, is currently the best [...]