Easter and Passover: The Timing of These Sacred Holidays Presses Down On Us.

Mike Magee Eight years ago, Rabbi Daniel F. Polish wrote an article in the Jesuit magazine America titled, “Easter and Passover have more in common than you think.” In the final summary paragraph, he wrote: “Pesach (or Passover) and Pascha (or Easter), beneath their manifest historical and theological content, can be seen as the human reaction […]

Dyslexia Bites A Schoolyard Bully.

Mike Magee Back in 2019, Professor Harriet Feinberg Ed.D , a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education took a close look at Trump’s 1st term linguistic behavior and came to the conclusion that “Dyslexia may explain a lot about the twisted behavior of the president.” Feinberg pegged Trump’s reading level at 5th grade […]

Dyslexia – Newsom vs. Trump

Mike Magee Under President Trump, learning disabilities – especially discussions related to syntax and the quality of language in general – have risen to epic proportions. In a recent “tit for tat” that pitted the Governor of California against the President of the United States, the language disability, dyslexia, received a thorough press airing. Governor […]

Judge Pauses Kennedy CDC .

Mike Magee In early December, 2025, President Trump directed HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy to review the standing childhood immunization schedule. That schedule has historically guided the state school-entry requirements for vaccines as well as mandating no out-of-pocket costs to parents from vaccine insurers. The order had followed Kennedy’s summary dismissal of all members of the […]

The American Problem: Comfort With Moral Contempt

Mike Magee “The (American) problem runs deeper. Americans are not just skeptical of institutions. Many appear increasingly likely to judge their fellow citizens as morally bad. That is a different and more corrosive problem. Distrust can make people cautious. Moral contempt makes cooperation feel naive, compromise feel dangerous, and reform feel futile. They dehumanize so […]

Greatness Through The Eyes of Goodness.

Mike Magee For nearly a quarter century I’ve been answering the question, “Why is health political?” I will not force the “gentle reader” through that explanation one more time. But it is worth noting that no administration in my lifetime has made my point more clearly than the current one. It has forced on each […]

The Blurry Line Between Tolerance and Rejection

Mike Magee Are you for us, or against us? Will you tolerate border incursions, or deter, destroy, and extract? Will you bend (and how far) to accommodate your former enemies and betray your friends? These questions may sound provocative and political, but they have nothing to do with our current leadership disarray in the U.S. […]

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