“Mr. President, are you crazy?”: The New York Times calls for an “intervention” on the “mad king” Trump, echoing the scene of George III — last king of America — at the origins of psychiatry (2026)

When politics is constructed for the public as a psychiatric spectacle.

The cyber-psychedelic transformation of capitalism and the economics of ego death [slides] (2026)

Originally presented at the Capitalism and Mental Health Workshop, Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, 15 January 2026

Trump: “a President should take a cognitive test”, “they say it’s unconstitutional” (2024)

Trump on Biden: “We have this man negotiating nuclear weapons with Putin and with President Xi and he has no idea what’s going on”.