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By Robert Reich on his Substack on January 21, 2026.
Mark Carney. Image: European Union 2020. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: Politics
Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline
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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?
Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics
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. 
How the Murder of Good Changes the Stakes for Good
Accountability: We must never just turn the page
Click Here to Read: Accountability: We must never just turn the page by Elliot Kirschner on his Throught the Fog Substack on January 10, 2026.
Protesters at Foley Square by the federal government building protesting the ICE killing of Renee Good hours earlier. People spoke at the monument, before walking around 26 Federal Plaza, and ending back at Foley Squar Image: SWinxy. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
