This is going to be my first attempt at writing an essay concerning a largely pharmacy-specific issue. I’m trying hard to write it generally enough to allow more widespread readers to understand what I’m criticizing, but it’s a delicate balance to walk in this regard because I don’t want to make my argument irrelevant or…
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I decided to once again take a hiatus from book reviewing, but I inadvertently chose a difficult book to end on: Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise.1 While I think I did well within the confines of a 150 word review to as clearly as possible express the truth as I knew it, I also…
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Since they started being widely reported at the end of 2018, I’ve sporadically been hearing and reading about the Meng Wanzhou extradition proceedings and the two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were arrested in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in apparent retaliation to Meng’s arrest in Canada.i Through this exposure, I’ve had…
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I’m a huge Kazuo Ishiguro fan, so you can probably imagine how excited I was when I found out a new book of his was out. The prospect of actually reading Klara and the Sun1 got me to agree to write a book review in The Walleye again after so long away. I figured that…
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I suspect that this is going to be a difficult argument to make, especially since it feels wrong to me, untrue, on some level. And so it not only takes a lot for me to break through these feelings to arrive at the actual logic that leads me to the idea, but I also suspect…
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