Emancipated Pragmatism – Democratic Symbolic Action

Mike Magee Give thanks for our America, blemishes and all. Ken Burns says as much, making it clear, we are a mess of contradictions, and that is (in part) what makes us a uniquely American. Consider that in a single week, we have had to endure Trump’s “Things happen” as he defended the Saudi crown […]

“Those In Authority Must Retain the Public’s Trust.” The Catholic Bishops Have Spoken.

Mike Magee “The key is trust. It is when people feel totally alienated and isolated that the society breaks down. Telling the truth is what held society together.” ___________________________________________________ The words above seem to be contemporary – written in the midst of ICE raids on helpless immigrants, drawing comparisons to Selma, Alabama years ago. And, […]

Circulating The Truth: Harvey vs. Galen & Rush.

Galen’s Circulation Mike Magee “I have found bleeding to be useful, not only in cases where the pulse was full and quick, but where it was slow and tense.” That was the sage advise Benjamin Rush offered to fellow clinicians in the middle of the Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1796. Rush’s ignorance on […]

The New Face of Eugenics?

Mike Magee MD Few can possibly be surprised that, in the age of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, “Designer Babies” (among the billionaire tech crowd and their followers) are all the rage. Seven years ago, He Jiankui, a gene editing scientist from China, took three human embryos and used Crispr technology to design in immunity […]

What Is The Best Science Experiment Ever Done?

Mike Magee Allan Franklin PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado, cued up the question above in his acclaimed 2016 book “What Makes a Good Experiment.” He first addressed that question in a 1981 article in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. The general bias at the time was that […]

Resistance Meets Convergence – and Sorkin’s “1929”

Mike Magee This past weekend, over 7 million Americans joyfully and publicly flexed their democratic muscles in a dramatic push back on authoritarianism summed up in two words, “NO KINGS.” Resistance is slowly meeting convergence, as frustration is fueling activism to countermand ICE offenses, federal worker decapitations, soldiers invading our own cities, richy-rich getting […]

Does Action Lead To Hope, or Hope Lead To Action? Lessons from HIV and Beyond.

Mike Magee In this morning’s New York Times, David Leonhardt, editorial director of New York Times Opinion, interviews former Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg on the subject of Rebuilding America. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, and their two children recently moved from South Bend, Indiana to Chasten’s home town in Traverse, Michigan. Extended family presence played […]

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