Editors’ Note: Adapted from The New York Times, July 1, 2020. [Associated Press]. While not exactly an example of deep state functioning, the case against Novartis is emblematic of the rule of law and the continuing responsibility of government agencies… Read More ›
Health Care
Carpe Diem for Change
By Frank Blechman It is not hard to imagine a day early in 2021: A new administration has been sworn in. New congressional leadership is in place in… Read More ›
Around the Novahood
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY RECLAIM “SILENT SENTINEL” The Loudoun County chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has offered to provide a new resting place for a Confederate monument under consideration for removal. Installed in 1908 on the… Read More ›
Great Expectations Face VA Dems
By Frank Blechman Democratic leaders in the Virginia General Assembly have created a trap for themselves, from which I see no easy way out. Because of the economic disruption of the novel coronavirus, revenue projections made six months ago for… Read More ›
Committing to Economic Dignity
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, April 26, 2020. By Gene B. Sperling Mr. Sperling was the national economic adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is also the author of the forthcoming book “Economic Dignity.”… Read More ›
Brief Cases
NEW YORK ER DOCTOR, CHARLOTTESVILLE NATIVE, A SUICIDE COVID VICTIM Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, committed suicide in Charlottesville, where she was staying with family, reported her father, also… Read More ›
A Century-old Solution to Protect Employees and Employers
An April 21 letter from the VA GOP to Governor Northam urged him to create a plan for the reopening of nonessential businesses, even if only partial, as soon as possible. The letter stated that such a plan “cannot be… Read More ›
Pandemic Perspective
By Frank Blechman One month ago, on the eve of Super Tuesday, I wrote a column for this blog about fears that Bernie Sanders was the inevitable presidential nominee of the Democratic Party [https://voxfairfax.com/2020/03/02/on-the-eve-of-super-tuesday/]. I argued then that the nomination… Read More ›
Three Centuries of Indecision
Editors’ Note: See also Workers Are Us in today’s issue. Bernardino Ramazzini (1633–1714), an Italian physician, was appointed to the chair of theory of medicine at the University of Modena in 1682 and served as professor of medicine at the… Read More ›