“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.

NYT: “all plans and policies in Washington”, “global events”, and Trump’s “psyche” (2026)

Although the New York Times presents itself as radically anti-Trump, its language and framing, when viewed from a psypolitical perspective, ultimately reflect the same anti-political, technocratic logic as the Trump administration.

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”.

St. Matthew 5:22, “Whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire” (2022)

“But I say unto you, That whosoever

is angry with his brother without a cause

shall be in danger of judgment : and

whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca,

shall be in danger of the council : but

whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be

in danger of hell fire.”