Is it really such a shock that a man who’s bragged about sexual assault doesn’t give a shit about the tedious rituals of manufacturing consent from a populace he despises before getting violent? If you’re President Trump, you can just do things. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

my latest column in @nplusonemag.com: on Iran, the Millennium Challenge of 2002, why no one wants to learn anything, and how the repressed returns regardless www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R! On the cusp of romance with a promising young suitor, a family crisis and feelings of guilt leave Elisabeth in bitter disappointment and trapped by punishing double binds. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How do material conditions relate to individual distress - and what happens when communities experience traumatic political and economic change? Author Helen C. Epstein joins us to talk about suicide epidemics, community, PTSD, and more www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Really good episode here from @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social podcast, looking at the popularity of the #Romantasy genre among readers. Really interesting analysis from a gendered, trauma-informed perspective 👍 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

🚨NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE🚨 Max Fox and M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon.com) join the anti-self-helpline to talk about accountability in movement spaces and respond to your submissions to the helpline...! @pinko.online

don't actually TALK to one another, let alone arrive at your own conclusions through sustained operation of your critical faculties over time - just ask Grok what the other person's Post means, whether its Accurate, what they left out, etc.

"you unwashed rubes keep talking to one another and drawing connections from whats obviously in front of you when you should instead join me in turning to the unbiased analysis and synthetic insights of apps that tell you gravel is a great substitute for Hamburger Helper"

to me it seems bad that broad critiques of "conspiracy theories" and other modes of ostensibly feverish, vulgar, unrealistic, fantastic, insufficiently nuanced thinking etc are deployed alongside a fawning push for the mass adoption of downright goofy language association machines

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 It's part two of our intro to Jean Laplanche! Danielle Drori of brooklyninstitute.bsky.social joins us to talk "New Foundations for Psychoanalysis," moving beyond Freud's Oedipal and seduction theories, the stakes of parenting and therapy, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Lord have mercy this is a great mix

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the brilliant Danielle Drori of @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social for the first in a two part series on the work and legacy of psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

very much enjoyed this and also the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social interviews with @hamrahrama.bsky.social and Melissa Anderson and have been thinking about them all week lareviewofbooks.org/av/as-hamrah...

feels like a lifetime ago but still the same therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...

one of the best and most vital books we read last year

LOVE listening to this thoughtful, nuanced take as i take a break from studying thermochemistry 💜

🚨NEW WILD ANALYSIS🚨 It's our Heated Rivalry episode! From group psychology to the psychoanalysis of professional sports to the cultural work of fantasy, play, recognition, and more, we go big! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

some useful reflections on romantasy as a therapeutic genre

The perfect episode! Thank you @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social for this conversation with Abby Kluchin. I can now stop preaching that just dumping on romantasy does not to and just refer everyone to this: open.spotify.com/episode/2buZ...

🚨BONUS EPISODE🚨 @counterfactual.bsky.social cial joins @moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social to talk romantasy, fantasy, and trauma! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Abby and Patrick are going to be joining for the February edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline! Write in if you’d like to have them respond to your questions and reflections!

Friends! We're delighted to joining @medicinered.bsky.social's "Anti-Self-Helpline" next week! Write in questions, comments, and reflections on your experiences of political struggle so we can discuss them and take seriously their psychic and emotional content! bit.ly/4qH9mB3

Loved this ep!

A favorite film writer on a favorite podcast. A great listen, needless to say.

I’m on the new episode of the great psychoanalysis podcast Ordinary Unhappiness, talking with hosts Abby and Patrick about cinema:

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The great film critic and author @hamrahrama.bsky.social joins us to talk movies, moviegoing, moviemaking, and the significance of cinema itself in our era of streaming, "second screen content," and a dystopian landscape made possible by reality TV. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Excited to see @patblanchfield.bsky.social's brilliant interdisciplinary analysis applied to corruption and other issues. That he's an amazing writer to boot is a welcome bonus!

Pat is a gentleman, a scholar, a class clown, and one of the most insightful voices in my feed. Been holding on to this news since last month and I’m so so so happy to share it

incredibly excited and honored to be joining @rooseveltinstitute.org as a 2026 Fellow!

➡️ @patblanchfield.bsky.social 👥 As a Roosevelt Institute fellow, Patrick Blanchfield will research government corruption and its cultural consequences. Full bio 👉 rooseveltinstitute.org/authors/patr...

🎊 Exciting news: We’re proud to introduce our 2026 cohort of think tank fellows! This inspiring group will help advance our #GoodLife vision of shared prosperity and power for working people. Meet the new Roosevelters ⬇️

A friend of mine turned me on to @unhappinesspod.bsky.social and so locked in after only 30 minutes into their unlocked On Abjection episode. This is my new obsession. It's scratching the theory bitch embedded deep in my brain. I wish I'd done more with Kristeva in my research/writing...

Currently binging @unhappinesspod.bsky.social and I’m overjoyed. Discovered thanks to their collab with @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social.

dan and I are testing the new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social livestreaming setup, gaming and otherwise fucking about. tune in, come over, say hi, help us troubleshoot audio, AMA, etc! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTDr...

🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R! Tragedies mount, family fragmentations multiply, and a dark parental secret emerges. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

@unhappinesspod.bsky.social completely snubbed

🚨UNLOCKED🚨 As a coda to our series on projective identification, we're unlocking the brilliant @lilyscherlis.bsky.social, @counterfactual.bsky.social, and Dan talking “group relations" in general and for leftists in particular, the legacies of Bion, and much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Philosophers—the most relentlessly disputatious people alive—in complete agreement for once.

listening to @unhappinesspod.bsky.social episode on projective identification and wow it is making me miss group process part of cpe….I need to be in a Group again…..

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How does projective identification work in groups? We talk group dynamics from marriage to classrooms to corporations to American mass incarceration and beyond. It's Part II of our Projective Identification series with Brian Ngo-Smith! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

listened to a podcast recently where they said in the first episode that their fundamental rule would be to never pretend they had read something they had not read. i think this would be a good rule for posters as well

last day for 20% off annual memberships at all tiers!

Finished the year answering listener questions with Sam at Red Medicine for the Anti-Self-Helpline red-medicine.simplecast.com/episodes/ant...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by the great Brian Ngo-Smith for a conversation about one of the most difficult but powerful concepts in psychoanalysis: projective identification. We go from development to pathology, from Freud to Klein to Bion, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

think this is the most fun I've ever had recording an @unhappinesspod.bsky.social ngl

Friends! Here's an update from @counterfactual.bsky.social with news about our brand new, limited-time-only Higher Ed Death Spiral Membership Drive. Note: the Death Spiral is ongoing, but our Membership Drive only lasts until 12/31/25!