Click here to read “Don’t Mess With Big Bird” by Charles M. Blow from The New York Times on October 5, 2012.

Click here to read “Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming” by Maureen Dowd from The New York Times on October 6, 2012.

Click here to read “Authenticity And The ‘Tale of Two Romneys'” by Todd Essig from Forbes on October 7, 2012.

Have you ever pretended to like a client just to make a sale? Or showed respect to a manager whose decisions and style you found contemptible? Or, in general, wanted something—or someone—so bad you would say and do anything, or almost anything? If so you have struggled with authenticity and might benefit from the Tale of Two Romneys.

Click here to read “Who’s in Charge Inside Your Head?” by David P. Barash from The New York Times on October 6, 2012.

Click here to read “Interleaving: Writing and the Auto/Biographical Process” by Esther Altshul Helfgott from The Seattle Star.

I have always had an ambivalent relationship to The Academy. On the one hand I love research; on the other hand, when I am actively engaged in a research project, as I am now, I feel separated from the community in which I live. So when The Seattle Star awakened from its sixty-five year-old sleep, I offered to write a column on “Writing and the Biographical Process.” I thought it would give readers a chance to share in the nitty-gritty of what one writer does during the day; and it would help me feel less isolated in the particularities of my writing life.

Click Here to Read: A Critic at Large: In Plain View:  How child molesters get away with it by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker on September 24, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf By Mary Ellen Hannibal in The New York Times on September 28, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  The Psych Approach By David Brooks in the New York Times on September 27, 2012.

Click here to read “Jack Straw admits to suffering depression” by Adam Lusher from The Telegraph on September 22, 2012.

Jack Straw, the former Foreign Secretary, has revealed that he has suffered from depression after becoming an MP.

Click here to read “Almanac: Sigmund Freud” by CBS News from September 23, 2012.

And now a page from our Sunday Morning Almanac . . . September 23rd, 1939, 73 years ago today . . . the day a young medical specialty lost its world-renowned founder. For that was the day Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83 in London, a year-and-a-half after fleeing the Nazi occupation of his native Vienna.