Reagan’s Brain: Was Alzheimer’s a Cause or an Effect?

When Ronald Reagan revealed, in 1994, that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease — a finding many already suspected — I felt no compassion towards him whatsoever.

That’s not totally true. Actually, what I did was that I celebrated. It felt like cosmic retribution for his willful ignorance of the HIV/AIDS crisis, the classification of ketchup as a “vegetable” for…