Click Here to Read: O Canada: A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.
By Robert Reich on his Substack on January 21, 2026.
Mark Carney. Image: European Union 2020. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore
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,
