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David Brown

David Brown , a journalist and a physician, was a staff writer for The Washington Post from 1991 to 2013.

Pandemic Preparation

Pandemic Preparation

How ready was the government for what everyone knew was coming?

by David Brown | Friday, June 12, 2020
Mysterious Inheritance

Mysterious Inheritance

A new biography of the founder of population genetics

by David Brown | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four

by David Brown | Monday, March 04, 2019
Opioids and Paternalism

Opioids and Paternalism

To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain

by David Brown | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
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Two of a Kind

A postwar friendship

by David Brown | Thursday, September 05, 2013
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What’s Wrong (and Right) with Science Journalism

Remarks to the University of Iowa on October 8, 2008, for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry

by David Brown | Tuesday, September 01, 2009

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Celebrity Profiles

by Philip Lopate

Even this year’s Emmy Awards ceremony could not escape the sense of surrealism that has defined just about every aspect of our lives since March—after all, nothing says “pandemic” like award presenters in hazmat tuxedo suits. Constant as ever, though, was the ceremony’s reflection of our fascination with celebrities, a phenomenon that Philip Lopate—himself the writer of several celebrity profiles—challenged in this 2017 column.

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