Click Here to Read: Reframing Altruism: Learning how to tend mutually to the needs of others. (this is an expanded version of my Psychology Today Blog of January 8, 2026) by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens substack on January 15, 2026.
Oil painting of woman giving alms in Belisarius Begging for Alms by Jacques-Louise David (1781) Image: Own work, Remi Jouan, 2007-03,
Click Here to View: Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline: The Daily Beast Podcast on You Tuble.
Dr. John Gartner joins Joanna Coles to explain why Donald Trump’s worsening paranoia, erratic behavior, and visible health problems point to a dangerous mix of malignant narcissism and possible frontotemporal dementia. Drawing on clinical practice and the shift toward observable diagnostic criteria, Gartner argues that Trump’s public performances reveal more than enough: the “25th time” fixation, the aspirin theories, the right-side weakness, and the drifting, rambling speeches. The conversation ends with a stark question: What happens when a country is governed by a man whose greatest vulnerability is his own deteriorating mind?
Click Here to Read: Naloxone for the Cell Phone: An Absurd Antidote to the Greatest Addiction in History (Vol. 6; Issue 2) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind website on January 14, 2026.
Two women text messaging on their cell phones in a coffee shop on the campus of California State University, Fullerton Image: Paul Martin Lester. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.
Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
