A tragedy happens. People get hurt. Lives are lost. Then the lawyers start looking around the room. Who can be held responsible? That question sits at the center of a growing problem in American civil litigation. There’s nothing wrong with holding people and companies accountable when they actually cause harm. That’s what the justice system […]

The stories of the Righteous should be central to what we teach the next generation because remembering evil must also carry a responsibility to recognize and practice goodness. Children deserve to know what evil has done. They also deserve to know the names and choices of people who refused to surrender to it. The Righteous […]

My first patient at Southwest Florida Proton Center was a 11-year-old boy with brain cancer. Proton therapy could aim radiation at his tumor precisely enough to spare the healthy brain tissue around it, but it meant getting him to treatment five days a week, for six weeks straight. Because our center was close to his […]

Americans argue endlessly over who should govern. We spend less time asking the prior question: What kind of government are we trying to preserve? The answer should be self-government. What are the alternatives? Rule by someone else — by a monarch, an oligarchy, a bureaucracy, a party, an ideological elite, or simply whichever faction has […]