Eric Reinhart
@eric-reinhart.com
Psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and political anthropologist
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https://www.eric-reinhart.com/
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https://www.eric-reinhart.com/
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Eric Reinhart
@eric-reinhart.com
· Oct 10
Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.
Trump and his officials have no constructive plans for US public health or healthcare. They apparently thought they could just blame Obamacare for everything forever and make that their platform.
Shockingly, they seem to have ignored the blueprint I wrote for them.
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
Shockingly, they seem to have ignored the blueprint I wrote for them.
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
America’s Public Health Crisis Demands a Populist Solution
While Joe Biden protected a failed health care status quo, Donald Trump promises disruption. But we need more: a radical reimagining of public health that empowers working people as both recipients an...
jacobin.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Trump and his officials have no constructive plans for US public health or healthcare. They apparently thought they could just blame Obamacare for everything forever and make that their platform.
Shockingly, they seem to have ignored the blueprint I wrote for them.
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
Shockingly, they seem to have ignored the blueprint I wrote for them.
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
If only they'd followed the roadmap someone suggested in what many say is Trump's favorite media outlet.
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
America’s Public Health Crisis Demands a Populist Solution
While Joe Biden protected a failed health care status quo, Donald Trump promises disruption. But we need more: a radical reimagining of public health that empowers working people as both recipients an...
jacobin.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
If only they'd followed the roadmap someone suggested in what many say is Trump's favorite media outlet.
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
jacobin.com/2024/12/publ...
NYTimes Opinion decisions are often bizarre, but, really, why are they still publishing James Carville? Is there a less astute, more anachronistic, or consistently completely wrong commentator? There’s nothing interesting, original, or insightful in this guy.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NYTimes Opinion decisions are often bizarre, but, really, why are they still publishing James Carville? Is there a less astute, more anachronistic, or consistently completely wrong commentator? There’s nothing interesting, original, or insightful in this guy.
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This looks to be a useful symposium. Registration fees (ranging from $0 to $150) will go to The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/logi...
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/logi...
The Logic of Extermination/The Logic of Denial: An Online Symposium — The Psychosocial Foundation
Day-long symposium The Psychosocial Foundation x Parparaxis December 14th 10am Oakland 1 pm - NYC 6 pm London 8 pm - Beirut We’ve heard it every day for two y...
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This looks to be a useful symposium. Registration fees (ranging from $0 to $150) will go to The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/logi...
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/logi...
The difference between Boston and New York distilled into two world-class performances:
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The difference between Boston and New York distilled into two world-class performances:
Public writing without an institutional role that enables it is in many ways the best possible position for trying to think. It’s also an enormous pain in the ass, requiring far more time to try to place pieces than one is able to spend writing them.
November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Public writing without an institutional role that enables it is in many ways the best possible position for trying to think. It’s also an enormous pain in the ass, requiring far more time to try to place pieces than one is able to spend writing them.
Someone want a 2,000-word piece on the Trump-Mamdani affair and how it illustrates what Achille Mbembe identified as “banal grandiloquence”—a strategy by which power makes itself intimate and ultimately irresistible by staging its own absurdity?
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Someone want a 2,000-word piece on the Trump-Mamdani affair and how it illustrates what Achille Mbembe identified as “banal grandiloquence”—a strategy by which power makes itself intimate and ultimately irresistible by staging its own absurdity?
Larry isn’t guilty by association. He’s guilty and deserves fullest possible sanction entirely on his own merits.
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Larry isn’t guilty by association. He’s guilty and deserves fullest possible sanction entirely on his own merits.
It’s bizarre that media keep reporting that the trouble Larry Summers now faces is because his close ties to Epstein have been exposed rather than because the emails clearly show Larry is a sexual predator who admitted to attempting to use his university position to extract sex from a student.
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It’s bizarre that media keep reporting that the trouble Larry Summers now faces is because his close ties to Epstein have been exposed rather than because the emails clearly show Larry is a sexual predator who admitted to attempting to use his university position to extract sex from a student.
What makes Trump powerful is in no small part the media-manufactured consensus that he must be exceptional. But an actually brilliant mind—as opposed to a useful idiot with power—doesn’t need to go around insisting that he’s brilliant and strategic nor pay a cadre of sycophants to also do that.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What makes Trump powerful is in no small part the media-manufactured consensus that he must be exceptional. But an actually brilliant mind—as opposed to a useful idiot with power—doesn’t need to go around insisting that he’s brilliant and strategic nor pay a cadre of sycophants to also do that.
It's easy to look like a genius when the task of every person––both friend and foe––you meet is to make sure you are portrayed as one and when the entire US media apparatus is committed to portraying you as an exceptional, world-historical political mind.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's easy to look like a genius when the task of every person––both friend and foe––you meet is to make sure you are portrayed as one and when the entire US media apparatus is committed to portraying you as an exceptional, world-historical political mind.
Under such arrangements, commentators constantly observe that he has an uncanny ability to read the room, play to his audience, and manipulate others––as if these are products of strategic brilliance. But the reality is that he is not "reading the room;" the room has been arranged around him.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Under such arrangements, commentators constantly observe that he has an uncanny ability to read the room, play to his audience, and manipulate others––as if these are products of strategic brilliance. But the reality is that he is not "reading the room;" the room has been arranged around him.
🧵 Trump's supposed political "genius" is largely just the effect of power. He was given enormous wealth and privilege, then rode his notoriety and the emptiness of the Democratic Party to the apex of US politics. There, he is surrounded by people whose success depends on flattering him.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🧵 Trump's supposed political "genius" is largely just the effect of power. He was given enormous wealth and privilege, then rode his notoriety and the emptiness of the Democratic Party to the apex of US politics. There, he is surrounded by people whose success depends on flattering him.
Regarding Trump, people seem to forget that someone who is actually brilliant and strategic—as opposed to a useful idiot with power—doesn’t usually need to go around publicly insisting that he’s brilliant and strategic nor pay a cadre of employees to also do that as their full-time occupation.
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Regarding Trump, people seem to forget that someone who is actually brilliant and strategic—as opposed to a useful idiot with power—doesn’t usually need to go around publicly insisting that he’s brilliant and strategic nor pay a cadre of employees to also do that as their full-time occupation.
Was it the NYTimes that set the standard for calling Israeli-perpetrated, deliberately planned massacres “tests” of ceasefire agreements? How does someone with a brain write a headline like this?
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Was it the NYTimes that set the standard for calling Israeli-perpetrated, deliberately planned massacres “tests” of ceasefire agreements? How does someone with a brain write a headline like this?
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On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think Google might in fact be evil.
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think Google might in fact be evil.
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we must not forget.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why We Must Remember Brandon Teena
Decades after his death, Brandon’s name was invoked in the Nebraska legislature as a reminder of what led to his murder. This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we must not forget.
www.thenation.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we must not forget.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Will Hakeem Jeffries, who voted with Republicans to condemn socialism while Mamdani was at the White House today, commit seppuku tonight?
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Will Hakeem Jeffries, who voted with Republicans to condemn socialism while Mamdani was at the White House today, commit seppuku tonight?
And its preface. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
How to Beat Trump in a World of Unreason
To counter authoritarian drift, Democrats can’t just swap out nominees. They need to be bold.
www.thenation.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
And its preface. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Mamdani's rise and power suggests something in this essay might have been right after all.
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
Confronting the Death Drive in Trump’s America
Liberalism cannot beat back threats of political violence, nihilism, or fascism by appealing to reason alone.
jacobin.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Mamdani's rise and power suggests something in this essay might have been right after all.
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
jacobin.com/2024/10/deat...
Is this a downstream effect of the years of flooding of popular discourse with thinned-out, largely depoliticized "fascism" discourse by liberal public intellectuals like Snyder, Stanley, etc. such that the term now has increasingly little purchase?
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Is this a downstream effect of the years of flooding of popular discourse with thinned-out, largely depoliticized "fascism" discourse by liberal public intellectuals like Snyder, Stanley, etc. such that the term now has increasingly little purchase?
Just last Monday, Republicans on the House Rules Committee voted to refuse to condemn fascism. Bizarre as this moment is, part of what's at play seems to be the normalization of the idea that American politicians and presidents can in fact be fascists––and openly so.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just last Monday, Republicans on the House Rules Committee voted to refuse to condemn fascism. Bizarre as this moment is, part of what's at play seems to be the normalization of the idea that American politicians and presidents can in fact be fascists––and openly so.
People are very resistant to the application of the banality of evil when it comes to Trump and co. We might have to do actual political work if violence is not just about individual exceptionalism and personal morality.
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
People are very resistant to the application of the banality of evil when it comes to Trump and co. We might have to do actual political work if violence is not just about individual exceptionalism and personal morality.