City Journal
The Evidence Mounts
The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source…
National Review
Innovators to the Rescue
Thirty years ago, I spoke at a conference on xenotransplantation — the transplantation of organs, cells, or tissues between species — at…
The Dallas Morning News
No, President Biden can’t make you get vaccinated
COVID-19 vaccine mandates are all the rage, with some people anxious to impose them and others vehemently opposed. President Joe Biden recently directed the…
New York Post
Kyrie: Listen to a Doc, the Vaccines are Safe and Highly Effective
Kyrie Irving is a great basketball player, but he won’t be in the Brooklyn Nets lineup this season. The reason isn’t some nagging injury…
Op-Eds
Journalists Face Disaster as COVID-19 Deaths Drop
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is ebbing, but you would never know it from the headlines. Bad news, accurate or not, sells. And in…
New York Post
Stop the General Panic: COVID is Dangerous Now Only to Unvaccinated
More than ever, COVID-19 is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, the elderly, and those with pre-existing conditions. Yet there’s a disturbing tendency by the…
City Journal
Follow the (Political) Science
Both before and after the 2020 election, Joe Biden complained that President Donald Trump had politicized the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden insisted that he, in…
National Review
Injecting a Little Lawlessness
The most far-reaching and questionable part of the Biden administration’s six-pronged COVID-19 Action Plan directs the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health…
New York Post
The US is Nearing Immunity from COVID-19
Despite media claims that “We Can’t Turn the Corner on COVID,” the numbers of COVID-19 cases, new hospitalizations, and deaths…
City Journal
Delta is Dying
Despite media claims that “We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid,” the numbers of Covid-19 cases, new hospitalizations, and deaths…
National Review
Ending a Destructive and Illegal Government Program
Late last week the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a stay on a lower-court decision that struck down the Biden administration’s extension of the CDC’s nationwide…
City Journal
Booster Overkill
Several weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance and recommended that fully vaccinated individuals wear a mask…
New York Post
Biden’s Losing Support for His COVID Handling. Maybe He Should Stop Politicizing it
President Biden is threatening legal action by the secretary of education against Republican governors to get them to OK school mask mandates. This follows…
New York Post
Biden’s losing support for his COVID handling. Maybe he should stop politicizing it
City Journal
Science Matters—and So Do Individual Rights
As battles over Covid-19 mandates roil the country, it is vital that policies be scientifically based. Well-established legal precedent gives state governments and private…
New York Post
Lockdowns and Mandates Impede Far Better Voluntary Safety Measures
After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: The COVID-19…
New York Post
Media Won’t Pay a Price for Cheering Cuomo’s Draconian COVID Policies
City Journal
Individual Choices, Not Lockdowns
After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: the Covid-19…
National Review
Evicting the Constitution
Few government actions have been more emblematic of bureaucratic overreach than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium. After multiple successful…
New York Post
Hasty About-Face Distorts Delta Force
The CDC now urges public indoor masking after a worrisome study on the Delta variant — undermining the vaccine effort. We finally know what…
City Journal
The CDC’s Slender Reed
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reversed its guidance from two months ago and now recommends that fully vaccinated…
National Review
A Defeat for Dr. Leviathan
A recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a seemingly obscure case has important implications for limits on the Food and Drug…
The New York Post
Doctor Says: Stop the Panic Over the Delta Variant
Delta is now the dominant variant in the US of the virus that causes COVID-19. It is more transmissible than earlier variants and has led…
The Tribune-Democrat
The Show Must Go On
COVID-19 cases are rising, vaccinations are low, and most of the host country wants to cancel the event. Yet, the Games should go on.
City Journal
Stay the Course
One cannot open a newspaper, turn on a TV, or scroll through an online news feed without hearing about Covid-19’s new Delta variant. While…
Wall Street Journal
Stealing From Drug Makers Is No Way to Vaccinate the World
The innovative pharmaceutical industry confounded critics by delivering highly effective vaccines for a novel disease in less than a year. The vaccines are working…
The New York Post
Stop panicking about ‘Delta’: Vaccines are effective against ALL strains of COVID
Delta is coming. But contrary to alarmists at home and abroad, there is little reason to panic. Scientists first identified the Delta variant…
Washington Examiner
The Supreme Court’s First Amendment ruling could help stop cancel culture
In what could be an important precedent in these days of academic political correctness and cancel culture, the Supreme Court has…
City Journal
Obamacare Survives a Third (and Likely Final) Challenge
The Supreme Court has now ruled on three legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and for opponents of the statute the third time…
National Review
Woke Inquisitors in the Medical World
Four hundred years ago, Italian astronomer Galileo was persecuted for advancing Copernicus’s theory that the earth and other planets rotate around the…
The Wall Street Journal
Vaccine Slowdown Isn’t Cause for Alarm
The United States has done something amazing: developed and authorized three new vaccines and vaccinated half of its adult population, all within 17 months…
Wall Street Journal
Vaccine Slowdown Isn’t Cause for Alarm
The United States has done something amazing: developed and authorized three new vaccines and vaccinated half of its adult population, all within 17 months…
City Journal
Following the Politics, Not the Science
It is a disturbing prospect, like something out of a science fiction novel, but it’s appearing increasingly plausible nonetheless: the cause of the worldwide…
The Washington Examiner
Biden’s Expansion Of The Affordable Care Act Was Never About The Pandemic
Less than two months after jamming through a “temporary” expansion of the Affordable Care Act in the American Rescue Plan, President …
National Review
Punishing Success: the Biden Administration, Vaccines, and Intellectual Property
The Biden administration has apparently learned the wrong lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent statement, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the “Biden-Harris…
City Journal
Dear Landlord
Among the least logical, most burdensome restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic has been the nationwide ban on residential evictions imposed by the Centers for…
City Journal
Safety Cannot Be the Only Goal
It’s been a week since the FDA and CDC lifted their pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine. The…
New York Post
The Feds’ Foolish J&J Vax Pause is Already Undermining the War on COVID
A little more than a week ago, federal officials called for a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. The decision…
National Review
The CDC Shouldn’t Treat Racism as a Public-Health Crisis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, with a simple goal: prevent the spread of…
The New York Post
Agencies are Being Cautious with J&J Vaccine — and it Could Cost Lives: Doctor
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that they are recommending a pause in the use of…
City Journal
An Idea Whose Time May Never Come
Countries worldwide have announced plans to implement vaccine passports—electronic or paper credentials that show a person has immunity to Covid-19 through either vaccination or…
City Journal
An Idea Whose Time May Never Come
National Review
The CDC Extends Its Illegal, Ineffective Eviction Moratorium
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just announced that it is extending its nationwide eviction moratorium through June. The agency is…
City Journal
Open Schools Now
President Biden has continually intoned that we must “follow the science.” He needs to follow his own advice and lead on the…
City Journal
Crossing the Line
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued ever-changing, sometimes contradictory guidance throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. But the disparity between the agency’s treatment…
National Review
Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions
National Review
Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions
Can somebody tell President Biden that the election is over? Since he was sworn in six weeks ago, he hasn’t stopped denigrating the Trump…
The Washington Examiner
A Federal Eviction Ban Infringes on Constitutional Rights
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, federal and state governments have imposed multiple policies that infringe on constitutional rights in the name of protecting public health.
City Journal
The Third Vaccine
Chalk up another victory for America’s innovative pharmaceutical sector in the battle against Covid-19. An FDA analysis has found that Johnson and…
Wall Street Journal
Biden and Allies Stoked Vaccine Fears
President Biden has proposed an “unprecedented” information campaign to persuade people to get Covid-19 vaccinations. Why, when a pandemic has killed 500,000 Americans, does…
City Journal
False Hero of the Pandemic
Something is rotten in the state of New York. And, as in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it starts at the top. For the past year, New York…
National Review
Atlas, Mugged
Stanford’s campaign against Dr. Scott Atlas for the sins of working for former president Donald Trump and advocating for balancing the costs and benefits…
National Review
Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids
Co-authored by Sally Satel and Joel Zinberg In 1819, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall aptly warned that “the power to tax involves…
Inside Sources
Beating COVID-19: Five Simple Steps
Inside President Biden’s expansive and expensive plan to combat COVID-19 are a few hundred billion dollars to increase vaccination. Despite the scientific triumph of…
New York Post
Our Leaders Failed Us on COVID, but Miracle Science Brings Hope for Relief
It seems like a lifetime, but it was only one year ago that the world learned about a cluster of pneumonia cases linked to…
City Journal
Don’t Wait to Reopen Schools
President Biden has asked governors to reopen schools at the end of his first 100 days in office. Why wait? No Covid-19…
City Journal
What Was Amazon Waiting For?
January 20 was Inauguration Day. It was also the day that a major American employer offered to help in the Covid-19 vaccination effort. In…
National Review
Why Is Israel Doing Better Than Everyone Else in COVID Vaccinations?
Eleven years ago, Dan Senor and Saul Singer dubbed Israel the “Start Up Nation” for its disproportionately large number of technology start-ups and NASDAQ stock…
City Journal
End Covid Now
More than 22 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been distributed in the United States so far, yet only …
National Review
Why Are We Vaccinating People Who Have Recovered from COVID-19?
Now that Pfizer and Moderna have received emergency-use authorizations for their COVID-19 vaccines, the tough work of deciding how to allocate the limited supply of…
City Journal
A Path to Better Days
It seems like a lifetime, but it was only one year ago that the world learned about a cluster of pneumonia cases linked to…
Wall Street Journal
Trump Isn’t the One Politicizing Science
Politics has infected many issues over the past four years and has now reached the supposedly objective halls of official medicine. In an editorial…
Wall Street Journal
Trump Isn’t the One Politicizing Science
National Review
Intimidation Tactics Against Trump Lawyers Undermine Justice
Two-hundred and fifty years ago, a young lawyer named John Adams risked professional and economic ruin when he defended British soldiers who were accused…
City Journal
Andrew Cuomo, Vaccine-Resistant
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has done it again. Following his earlier pledge to delay distribution of a prospective, FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccine…
The Wall Street Journal
We Don’t Need Government Mandates for Covid Vaccination
Covid-19 vaccines are almost here. Pfizer announced Monday that its vaccine has proved more than 90% effective in clinical trials. But vaccines are useless unless…
Wall Street Journal
Democrats Assured ACA Would Come Before ACB
California and the House asked the Supreme Court to fast-track’s Texas’ challenge to the law. Democrats now claim they oppose Judge Amy Coney…
City Journal
Cuomo’s Vaccine Overreach
The New York governor’s incorrect claim that his state can review FDA vaccine approval will lead to more contagion and illness. New York…
National Review
Cancel Culture Comes to Medicine
Cancel culture has come to medicine. Dr. Scott Atlas, who was chairman of neuroradiology at Stanford’s medical school until 2012 and more recently a senior…
The Hill
Ending Counterproductive, Counterintuitive Regulation
Early in the COVID-19 crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chided the Trump administration’s response and demanded “testing, testing, testing.” Yet,…
City Journal
Pointless Quarantine
New York’s restrictions on interstate travelers are overbroad and punish rather than protect New Yorkers. At the end of March, Rhode Island governor…
National Review
How Trump Can Help Reopen America’s Schools
It’s almost the middle of August, and many parents still have little idea if their kids will be able to go to school in a few…
The Wall Street Journal
The White House Prepared for a Pandemic
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched the Democrats’ broadside against the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response. “Our current federal government is dysfunctional and incompetent,” he told…
City Journal
Following The Science — Where?
When doctors meet a patient for a new complaint, we make a list of different possible explanations for the problem—a differential diagnosis—and try to determine…
Inside Sources
Government Contact Tracing Won’t Help Get Americans Back to Work, but Innovation Will
Contact tracing identifies people who have an infectious disease (cases) and people they came in contact with (contacts) who may have become infected.
City Journal
Death By Policy
Many years ago, one of my duties as a young surgical intern was to fill out death certificates for recently deceased patients. Under “cause of death,” Part…
Inside Sources
Are Protests Safe From COVID-19? Politics Guide Answers.
For months, a constant refrain in discussions of the COVID-19 pandemic has been: follow the science, listen to the experts.
National Review
A Doctor’s Assessment of the COVID-19 Outbreak
Last week, my daughter, a freshman at a Midwestern university, was informed that the spring quarter would be replaced by a remotely conducted quarter. Hundreds of…
USA Today
Coronavirus Vaccine Not the End-All-Be-All. We Must Have a Plan for Reopening Without One
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts have touted vaccines as the ultimate solution to dealing with the threat of COVID-19. There are strong reasons to…
USA Today
Coronavirus vaccine not the end-all-be-all. We must have a plan for reopening without one.
National Review
Let the Doctors Work
Buried in the recent announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the first…
National Review
Let the Doctors Work
The Washington Examiner
How to Reopen the Economy with a Reality-Based Approach
Sweeping public health measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, such as banning large gatherings, travel restrictions, closing all but essential businesses, closing schools, and “social distancing”…
Washington Examiner
How to reopen the economy with a reality-based approach
National Review
The Test’s the Thing
The White House is now balancing the risk to public health and the risk to economic welfare posed by the coronavirus crisis. Yet a solution could…
National Review
The Test’s the Thing
Inside Sources
Why the CBO Estimates for the GOP Health Care Bill Are Undoubtedly Wrong
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has forecast that 14 million more people will be uninsured in 2018 under the House of Representatives’ American Health…