Health care cannot be reasonably delivered in a market: Anything urgent does not permit comparison shopping; information is asymmetrical. Insurance works best if it is universal (no adverse selection), but it also creates moral hazard (spending someone else’s money). Regulation inevitably needed.

I agree that there is good reporting still, and Sebastian Smee is always worth reading, as are your opinion pieces. I may renew in a few months when my current online subscription expires, but the paper is emaciated by comparison with its pre-non-endorsement self.

Is the story true that there were three Commelinus men, two of whom were naturalists and a third who was a ne’er-do-well - and that Linnaeus named this plant with two bold blue petals and one vestigial petal after them?

I share your view, but I wonder when it becomes insufficient. (The Nuremberg trials were not, strictly speaking, legal; there was no existing constitution to constrain them; and they were violent.)

Unnerving use of perspective.

Thank you. This is helpful.

Within some limits, I am. Do you have a recommendation?

Is there a good email platform?

Yes. I have noticed.

Unfortunately, Corporal Shmoe isn’t the one who should be persecuted, it is General This and Colonel That who should be prosecuted. And good luck with it.

For prose, of course, Raymond Chandler. The early ones, e.g. “The Big Sleep, are best.

Kate Atkinson, who has written two masterpieces, “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins,” also writes mysteries.