Because artists pursue their passions whether or not anyone pays them, art thrives in the best and the worst of times.  And, as Charles Underwood reminds us, like a weed, it gains strength during periods of adversity.  (“Art in the Age of Trump,” by Charles Underwood, Town&C

In a blog entitled A Polemic (1/20/17), I wrote about an artist’s duty to comment upon events of the time.  In a similar vein, the editors of Harper’s devoted their February edition to “A Resister’s Guide”: 11 writers stop to consider the impact of Donald Trump’s 2017 pre

Being either a psychopath or a narcissist is rapidly falling out of favor as a mental illness among psychiatrists. The afflictions, if they are afflictions, are far too common.  (See blogs 1/18/13 and 6/16/14.)  Psychopaths, for example, thrive as CEO of corporations, politicians an