Four Years, One Fighter: How Ken Paxton Finally Brought Texas Children’s Hospital To Justice
Alexander Muse – There is a particular kind of public servant who treats a press release as the end of the work, and another kind who treats it as the beginning. The difference between these two dispositions is the difference between a politician and a fighter. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latter, and the settlement he has just secured with Texas Children’s Hospital is the proof.
Under the agreement, the hospital will pay a $10,000,000 fine, terminate every physician involved in the chemical and surgical transition of minors, and open the state’s first detransition clinic to provide care to the children it harmed.
The hospital that once denied, then minimized, then secretly continued the mutilation of children will now fund their recovery. Pause on that sentence, because it is rare in public life that wrongdoing is so directly converted into restitution. The institution that caused the injury is now compelled to treat it. Continue reading
Kevin Finn – In 1634 the Dutch became enamored of tulips. So much so that many neglected their ordinary affairs in order to pursue the tulip trade. Soon, tulip sales were posted on the Stock Exchange of Amsterdam. People bought tulip bulbs on credit hoping to recoup their expenses as the value climbed. By 1637 the market turned, as markets always do, and investors had to sell their bulbs at a loss, some declaring bankruptcy. Prices returned to normal the following year.