Non Fiction Archive

What Doctors Cannot Tell You: Clarity, Confidence and Uncertainty in Medicine - A friend was about to get a heart transplant. I asked his wife, “Does the surgeon think he’s God?” “Father and Son,” she said.   She smiled. I smiled. In surgery involving the

When Prophecy Fails - It has surely come to your attention that there are Americans who believe improbable --- no, impossible --- fantasies are facts. That is why the $2.7 billion lawsuit that Smartmatic

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto - I was interviewing George Soros as the Dow rapidly shed 300 points and crashed through the 10,000 level. “Is this it?” I asked.   Soros shrugged --- a very calm reaction from

Why Not? How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big And Small - All these years, you've been eating bananas the wrong way. The part you think is the top? Wrong. It's the bottom. You doubt that? Look at

Why Read Moby-Dick? - I’ve never read “Moby-Dick.” For that matter, I’ve only read one plot of “Middlemarch” --- and I was an English major who graduated with high honors.   Seems like my resistance to long

Winning -       Winning Jack Welch (with Suzy Welch) No other person in America could write a book

Wisconsin Death Trip - There is an idea in media that we used to be better than this. "We," of course, means white people, and in these dreamy takes, we got along. Yes, if

Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul - Guest Butler Joe DePreta is a New York marketing executive and writer on cultural trends. He last wrote about Don Henley. As the 1960s drew to a close, the United

Women in Shadow and Light -       Short Takes (Non-Fiction) Runaway American

You’ve been to the Temple of Dendur at the Met. Did you know it’s in the Sackler Wing — and how the Sacklers made their fortune? Let me introduce you to the patriarch. - 2020 was a record year for opioid deaths: More than 81,230 people died from a drug overdose between June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2020. That’s two of three deaths