From Hollywood to Washington, Big Pharma has become everyone’s favourite villain. Writing in Commentary, Tevi Troy documents the evolving image of this crucial sector from scientific saviour to rapacious evil doer. “The constant assault against pharmaceutical companies for trying to create new cures has got to be discouraging,” observes Troy. “At some point, we need to wonder whether these businesses are just going to say ‘enough is enough’.” And then what?
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.