Archive for Herbert London

Government Funding for Not Training Doctors: Another Odd Program

Dr. London is John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University, New York. In a plan many health experts describe as brilliant and innovative, federal regulators announced recently that for the next six years they would pay New York State hospitals not to train physicians. Of course, this plan isn’t unprecedented. For years [...]

1Aug1997 | | 1 comment | Continued

What Money Can’t Buy

Dr. London is John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University, New York. Education is very much in the policy air, and virtually everyone says that we must spend more to improve our schools. In fact, the way politicians seek to prove that they are in favor of education is by promising to [...]

1Apr1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Decline of Secondhand Bookstores

Dr. London is Dean of the Gallatin Division at New York University. This article is excerpted from the April 1988 issue of his monthly newsletter, The London Letter. Jacques Maritain once said that what distinguished New York from the other great cities of the world is that it is in constant flux. New York does [...]

1Dec1988 | | 1 comment | Continued

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