Roy Eidelson's Profile
Roy Eidelson, a clinical psychologist and a past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, is the author of the new book, POLITICAL MIND GAMES: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible.
Diaries published: 47 (188 days since last diary on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 06:28 AM PST)
Comments posted: 74 (188 days since last comment on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 06:28 AM PST)
Diary frequency: seldom
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Total Recommends: 227
Total Comment Ratings: 193
Most Recommended Diary: Psychology’s “Dark Triad” and the Billionaire Class, 55 comments, 57 recommends
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Last week, Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, Lakhdar Boumediane, Sami Al Hajj, Ahmed Errachidi, Mohammed Ould Slahi, and Moussa Zemmouri published an open letter in the New York Review of Books. Noting that many Guantanamo detainees had been abducted...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Wed Feb 03, 2021 at 06:28 AM PST
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Somewhere, deep in the bowels of our nation’s capital, today’s Democratic Party establishment keeps close guard over a hulking, fearsome, and often temperamental machine. With hundreds of moving parts, it’s surprising that the elaborate contraption has...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Wed Nov 18, 2020 at 07:29 AM PST
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First came the new names—Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others—all added one by one to the long list of tragic, unjustifiable police killings of Black Americans. Then came the batons, the pepper spray, the tear gas, the...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Fri Aug 07, 2020 at 08:32 AM PDT
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It’s hard to know exactly where the Trump Administration found the inspiration for its newest set of draconian asylum rules. Might it have been a National Geographic special where a giant anaconda encircles its prey, squeezes it to death, and then...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Thu Jul 23, 2020 at 06:06 AM PDT
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In professional wrestling circles, the Legion of Doom is a name that conjures up the fearsome physiques and painted faces of one of the great tag teams of all time. In the political arena today, the same moniker aptly describes an even more daunting...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Thu Mar 05, 2020 at 06:00 AM PST
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False claims, character assassination, and bullying threats. It probably sounds familiar, but I’m not referring to the president’s latest tweets. Rather, I’m describing the piece by Sally Harvey—titled “Hoffman Report’s flaws should be acknowledged”—in...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Thu Feb 13, 2020 at 06:18 AM PST
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