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1 month ago | 
thepreamble.com | David Graham |Sara Georgini |Erin Blakemore |Ronald Dworkin
I know you’re busy, so let’s catch up on some of our latest articles and recommendations. Billionaires probably pay a lower tax rate than you do. Some even pay $0 in income taxes, despite their net worth increasing exponentially each year. So how do they do it? DEI has become a boogeyman in the federal government, often blamed for every ill. The truth is that it’s a smokescreen to justify efforts to undo decades of civil rights progress.
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1 month ago | 
quillette.com | Brad Strotten |John Lloyd |Ronald Dworkin |Gerfried Ambrosch |Bradley Strotten
A review of We Do Not Part by Han Kang, 272 pages, Hogarth (February 2025)“Here they come,” wrote Kingsley Amis of Colin Wilson’s debut book, the bold existentialist anthology, The Outsiders, “tramp, tramp, tramp—all those characters you thought were discredited, or had never read, or (if you are like me) had never heard of: Barbusse, Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Hermann Hesse, Hemingway, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Tolstoy [and] Dostoevsky.”This was textbook Amis.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Allan Stratton |Ronald Dworkin |Jonathan Kay |Jaspreet Singh Boparai
It’s hard for a novelist to make a double axe-murderer sympathetic, especially when his victims are an old woman and her mentally disabled half-sister. In addition to which, this murderer is a remorseless antisemite who rationalises his motives and considers himself to be above society. A second character is an alcoholic whose addiction has bankrupted his family and forced his teenage daughter into prostitution. Surely the novelist has created a hellscape from which absolution is impossible.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Ronald Dworkin |Jonathan Kay |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Holly Lawford-Smith
Capitalism can be likened to a spiral staircase. Every economic advance is like a circle completed, then comes a new problem, followed by a new circle above the old one, which means solving the problem, only to give rise to another problem and another circle, and so on.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Ronald Dworkin
Ronald W Dworkin | Aeon | August 28, 2024 AI promises to make healthcare quicker, more precise, and error-free.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Doriane Lambelet Coleman |Ronald Dworkin |Jonathan Kay |Jaspreet Singh Boparai
With the return of the Olympics, it’s time for another predictable global uproar about XY athletes competing in the female category. This is now a century-old problem in elite sport that we’ve somehow not yet managed to solve in a uniform way. The Paris 2024 iteration of this debate is arguably the most explosive ever due to a confluence of at least three factors:This time around, the athletes are boxers not runners, which means they’re going to be punching their competitors.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
standaard.be | Ronald Dworkin
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May 23, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ronald Dworkin
The patient was dead before I even saw her. She had been in a car accident. Now she was scheduled for organ donation. To estimate operative risk, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has a classification system built around how sick a patient is, ranging from a healthy 1 to a moribund 5, the latter meaning someone is not expected to live 24 hours. When the system was created in the mid-20th century, a sixth class for dead people seemed pointless.
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May 9, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Ronald Dworkin
My patient was dead before I even saw her. She had been in a car accident. Now she was scheduled for organ donation. She was called an ‘ASA 6’. To estimate operative risk, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has a classification system built around how sick a patient is, ranging from a healthy ASA 1 to a moribund ASA 5, the latter meaning someone is not expected to live 24 hours. When the system was created in the mid-20th century, a sixth class for dead people seemed pointless.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Ronald Dworkin
How should the government deal with those who disobey the draft laws out of conscience? Many people think the answer is obvious: the government must prosecute the dissenters, and if they are convicted it must punish them. Some people reach this conclusion easily, because they hold the mindless view that conscientious disobedience is the same as lawlessness. They think that the dissenters are anarchists who must be punished before their corruption spreads.
