Dr. Sally Satel, AEI scholar and lecturer at the Yale Department of Psychiatry, sounds the alarm on the growing intolerance of academic medicine, or what she calls "indoctrinology." The Association of American Medical Colleges has told medical schools to institute anti-racist training, the American Medical Association has condemned the notion that health is a personal responsibility, and earlier this year, Satel herself delivered a lecture to the Yale Department of Psychiatry about the opioid crisis that inspired some residents to demand her lectureship be revoked. "In important ways," she writes, "I hardly recognize my profession."

In an essay for the Hoover Institution, Klon Kitchen argues that government purchases of citizens' private market data serve a crucial national security function. However, they should also prompt more serious efforts at government oversight to prevent the misuse of this information.

Nicholas Eberstadt reports that the Moon Jae-in administration in South Korea is desperate to declare a formal end to the Korean War, which could have serious real-world consequences by emboldening North Korea. "Pantomime statecraft and make-believe breakthroughs can't enhance Korean security," he warns, "though they could very well make the peninsula a more dangerous place."

Yuval Levin and Adam J. White use this week's oral arguments at the Supreme Court about Mississippi's abortion restrictions to reflect on the obligations that Americans owe each other. They demonstrate that many Supreme Court abortion rulings have emphasized the concept of undue burdens; by contrast, "in the hands of legislators and citizens, the idea of due burdens could help chart a way forward after Roe."

According to R. Richard Geddes, Amtrak stands to gain enormously from the infrastructure bill passed last month. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, which has long been plagued by delays, derailments, and other problems, could finally become "a showcase for how the United States can deliver self-sustaining, reliable, safe and affordable high-speed passenger rail," but only if Amtrak were to implement policy reforms that introduced competition.