In 2011 Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith published a biography of the Dutch artist in cooperation with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The volume at close to 1000 pages is an almost minute by minute account of the tortured life of one of art’s most acclaimed figures. The sequence of disasters that constitute…
There’s an article in The American Mind a publication of the Claremont Institute that in its first half describes life in the city of Lubbock where I have lived for the last 40 years. It describes a series of municipal characteristics that have escaped my notice over those four decades. They include leaving personal items…
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) just released a new breast cancer mammography screening recommendation. It advised that mammography should start at age 40, though the report nowhere mentions this new start. The Task Force’s full report is appended below. Here are some direct quotations from the report which presumably contain the evidence for…