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Nov 5, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Andrew Hartz
We live in a politicized era. Politics, particularly identity politics, are now woven through our educational, entertainment, technology, and medical institutions. This has taken a toll not only on our culture but also on individuals’ mental health. The causal chain is clear. Proponents of identity politics attack people for their beliefs, values, race, or sex. They intimidate their targets into self-censoring; in some cases, they ruin careers.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | David Cohen |Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman
In the department of non-news, the recent revelation that Bruce Springsteen has moved from E Street to Easy Street and joined the billionaire ranks of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney deserves a tick. Yes, the working-class hero from New Jersey may now have the disposable cash to buy a highway fit for broken heroes, but his reviews have long been worth a billion bucks as well. This year marks the anniversary of the first and most influential of those notices.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman |Cathy Young
Communism as a ruling doctrine is a relatively recent phenomenon in historical terms, dating back just over a century—or, if we count parties bearing the name, such as the Communist League of Marx and Engels (c. 1847–48), about 175 years. But the idea of material or social equality lying at the heart of Communist theory traces back deep into antiquity, and it is worth examining the different strands of thought that have informed and inspired modern Communists. In The Republic (c.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman |Cathy Young |Richard Dawkins
Few thinkers have had a global impact comparable to Sigmund Freud’s. His theories continue to influence mental health care, as well as the arts, literature, philosophy, and nearly every subject in the humanities and social sciences. Despite this impact, his work is a tough sell. He’s tied to bizarre theories about childhood sexuality, attacks on religion, judgmental and crazy psychoanalysts, and grandiose claims that haven’t stood the test of time.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
discoursemagazine.com | Andrew Hartz
Recently, there’s been growing alarm about the shocking increase in mental illness among young people. To account for this change, scholars have raised understandable concerns about the potential effects of social media,COVID lockdowns and the overprotection of children. But something else may also be a factor: People seem to be losing touch with wisdom from the past.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Joan Smith |David Cohen |Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz
Few countries have surrendered so completely to the maximalist demands of transgender activists as Scotland, where two former First Ministers, Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, both recently had their careers cut short after they supported unpopular legislation permitting men to self-identify as women. And yet, even in Scotland, the latest example of men taking over women’s spaces has left jaws hanging open.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Andrew Hartz
New data reveals that the rise of cancel culture is not merely impacting free speech, it's taking its toll on mental health. thebigland45 - stock.adobe.com On a podcast recently, UFC CEO Dana White compared cancel culture to the 1980s when LGBTs remained “in the closet,” unable to be their true selves.
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May 24, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Andrew Hartz
In recent years, mental health in America has been a growing concern. But even as awareness has grown, many practitioners overlook important issues. Much of this is related to the field’s political bias, which leads researchers and therapists to ignore entire clinical populations. One example involves race. Left-leaning researchers have spent decades focusing on racial bias as a contributing factor to mental illness, but their research has ignored bias and belligerence directed toward whites.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
discoursemagazine.com | Andrew Hartz
Self-censorship is taking a toll on public life, especially education. It’s not just the books and articles that teachers quietly remove or the reluctance to engage with students on sensitive topics or the talented educators who quit. It’s the questions students become afraid to ask, the untold anecdotes and jokes, and the deleted assignments. A great deal of knowledge is quietly vanishing—and along with it the joys and satisfactions of teaching and learning. There’s also the psychological toll.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
iwf.org | McKenzie Holmes |Inez Stepman |Andrew Hartz
Andrew Hartz is a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. Andrew and Inez discuss how woke ideology is encouraging therapists to violate their professional obligations to patients and making them unable to work with the majority of Americans. Andrew also parries some of Inez’s objections to therapy as a concept, and the two discuss what negative psychological tendencies are encouraged by the culture.
