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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.

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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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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What Does Columbus Day Really Mean?

by William J. Connell

Whether you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Discoverers’ Day, or Native Americans’ Day, historian William J. Connell observes that, in the end, this controversial civic holiday is just that: a holiday. In his essay “What Columbus Day Really Means,” Connell writes that President Benjamin Harrison created the holiday in 1892 to honor both Native Americans and the many immigrants who were only then arriving in the country. “It was to be a national holiday that was not about the Founding Fathers or the Civil War, but about the rest of American history,” Connell writes—a day for celebrating the country and all its people. Sounds to us like a pretty good reason to take the day off of work.