Jeffrey Folks

In his recent book Magic Pill, Johann Hari assesses the benefits and risks of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro that are used for weight loss and diabetes control. Since January 2023, Hari has been injecting himself with…

On May 17, a young man, whom no one seemed to actually know, died in the explosion of a massive bomb outside a California IVF clinic in what authorities describe as an a deliberate act of terrorism. A manifesto that he left…

Not long ago, U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. defended Trump’s nomination of Casey Means as surgeon general. In his nomination remarks, Trump wrote that Means would “work closely” with Kennedy “to ensure a successful…

The Athenian democracy fell to Sparta in 404 B.C. That disaster was not inevitable; it was the result of a series of poor decisions, themselves the result of greed and self-interest on the part of various factions. Had the…

Whether they admit it or not, most Democrat leaders are Marxists, and they justify their resistance to Trump’s reforms on the basis of Marxist ideas. They oppose renewing and expanding the Trump tax cuts because those cuts, they…

In an advertisement currently running on TV, a young white male kneels on his front lawn, trimming the grass one blade at a time with a nail clipper. Next door, a slightly older black male sits comfortably on his porch, scanning…

I am in the middle of a five-day modified fast, so I am experiencing some hunger, just as I have several times before in my life: when I ran out of money as a college student, when I experienced the bare shelves of Eastern Europe during the…

We have lived through decades of cynicism, but now the USA and the world are waking up to the faith and hope that are the natural and essential condition of life. There is a vast difference between the woke past, filled with lies…

We do not live in an entirely peaceful or civilized world. Conservatives realize that fact and wish to prepare for the worst by strengthening our military, shoring up the value of our currency, and ensuring economic…

The task that RFK Jr. has set for himself is huge: nothing less, it appears, than a revolution in the health of the American people. If successful, or even partially successful, Kennedy’s efforts would spare tens of millions of…