How James Baldwin spoke to immigrants like me

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 3, 2020August 3, 2020 History, Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: How James Baldwin spoke to immigrants like me By Leah Merakhor on the Los Angeles Times website on August 2, 2020. Image: Allan Warren Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Poetry Monday August 3rd, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Literature

Poetry Editor Irene Willis is on vacation. She’ll be back after Labor Day, and meanwhile urges you to stay safe, read as much poetry as you can, and do what you can to help others stay healthy.

Stand by Me

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 30, 2020July 30, 2020 Film, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Stand by Me: Friendship Matters In Grief, Loneliness & COVID-19 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on July 30, 2020.

Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be ‘scientifically meaningless’

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be ‘scientifically meaningless’ on the Neuroscience News website on ·July 8, 2019.

Hubble’s brand new image of Saturn will blow your mind

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Hubble’s brand new image of Saturn will blow your mind by Mark Kaufman on the Mashable website on July 25, 2020.
Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Date July 1, 2016. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Stanley Fish and the Argument Against Free Speech

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Books, Politics

Click Here to Read: Stanley Fish and the Argument Against Free Speech: Is the liberal search for truth missing a sense of the common good, and a historically informed understanding of the violence of words? by Blake Smith on the Tablet website on July 21, 2020.

A New Theory of Dreaming

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: A New Theory of Dreaming: Do dreams exist to protect the brain’s visual cortex? by Neuroskeptic on the Discover website on July 26, 2020,
Image: Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.