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Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture

37th Social Research Conference

March 6, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

Monday and Tuesday, April 23 & 24, 2018 The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University invite you to "Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture." Cons and con men have long been present in American culture and are often represented as ...

Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture

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Divining Desire

The rise of the focus group

February 24, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

On February 15, 2017, our Executive Editor Claire Potter met with journalist Liza Featherstone to discuss the launch of her new book, Divining Desire, about the development and legacy of one of the great curiosities of our culture: focus groups. We livestreamed their conversation on Facebook, which you can watch here. If ...

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The Visibility of Value

Thoughts on the Seen and the Unseen

June 1, 2017 • by Akeel Bilgrami

There is a superstition of modernity which declares that nature contains no properties that are not countenanced by the natural sciences. By “superstition” I mean: no one knows how and when this was proved nor has anyone shown how it helps us to live better. On the presumption that natural ...

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Evil is Not a Psychiatric Illness

A reflection on Dr. Steven Reisner’s message

May 16, 2017 • by Joanna Diab

Since the earliest days of Trump’s candidacy, media has been glutted with op-eds suggesting he is unfit for the role of presidency because he is “mentally ill,” with doctors and psychiatrists intentionally violating the Goldwater Rule by attempting to diagnose the new president without having had any clinical contact. At ...

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The Insanity of Narcissism

Exploring Narcissism in Today’s Politics

April 22, 2017 • by Daniel Shaw

Mental health practitioners generally agree, since the Goldwater days, that it is not appropriate to offer psychoanalytic diagnoses of public figures we’ve never actually interviewed or treated. However, many of us, myself included, are chomping at the bit these days. It’s especially tempting for me, since I’ve been writing and ...

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Mental Wealth and Hellbeing

Pitting the productive against the human

April 15, 2017 • by Simon Jones

When the Scottish Government announced its ten year strategy on mental health at the end of March, bureaucrats would have known exactly how it would be received. The first draft mapped the next 120 months of life for citizens affected by mental ill health, and ran 12-pages. It was roundly criticized for ...