Click Here to Read: Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore: In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world by By Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times on January 13, 2026.
Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus
Click Here to Read: Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus By Eric Gudas on the LA RB website on January 5, 2026.
Diane Arbus Constellation, photography exhibit at Park Avenue Armory. Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel. Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons. 
The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia: How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather
Click Here to Read: The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia: How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather By Emma Freud in The Observer on January 2, 2026.
Love Actually With Richard Curtis LukeParkerBowles and EmmaFreud Photo courtesy of Neil Grabowsky, Montclair Film Festival. Image: Montclair Film. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies
Click Here to Read: Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality By Rachel Aviv in The New Yorker magazine on December 8, 2025.
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival, wearing a light-blue shirt and a dark-blue necktie that features a double helix pattern.Image: Luigi Novi. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Reframing Altruism: Learning how to tend mutually to the needs of others
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,
Hélène Cixous, The Art of Criticism No. 7
Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline
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?
