There are two films called “Denial” out this year. One, a documentary, features climate change and the US energy system. I watched the other, a quiet drama based on a book about Emory professor Deborah Lipstadt’s legal confrontation with Holocaust denier David Irving. In 1994, Lipstadt was traveling around the US speaking about her recent book, Denying […]
Normalcy is not a refuge
Ever since the new US president declared his candidacy, commentators have speculated about his mental health, armchair diagnosing him, and making claims about his psychological competence as if malignant politics would be comprehensible if only we had the right DSM label for it. This tactic demeans millions of people who live with mental health conditions […]