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Favorite film from every decade: 20s Faust 30s M 40s Double Indemnity 50s Rear Window 60s The Battle of Algiers 70s The Day of the Jackal 80s Full Metal Jacket 90s Miller’s Crossing 00s Master and Commander 10s Zero Dark Thirty 20s Anatomy of a Fall

“Expertise is not a dirty word; it is the foundation for our work.” — Jonathan Shedler

Alasdair MacIntyre: In a society in which everyone is trying to “understand” everyone else, there is a high value on cultivating opacity.

Minor injuries and accidents.

Post bookshelf so we can browse!

I’m not seeing much evidence for a “descent into madness” in the NYT Trump assassin investigation. Academic success, reliable employee at a nursing facility, quiet but had friends. Interest in homemade explosives since age 16. Weekly gun range user for almost a year prior.

Only 3% of Americans own 1,000 or more books.

Psychiatrists recommend antidepressants for an imagined patient who has been feeling sad and tired for the past 3 weeks, but choose “watchful waiting” for themselves in same situation.

“Which four people have had the biggest impact on your thinking?” Sigmund Freud, Edwin Shneidman, Arthur Schopenhauer, Paul Meehl

“Which books helped you better understand politics?”

“Rates of diagnosis and treatment of ADHD are higher among children born in August than among children born in September in states with a September 1 cutoff for kindergarten entry.”