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Eric Reinhart is a political anthropologist, social psychiatrist, and psychoanalytic clinician.
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October 15, 2025
Eric Reinhart
Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics
While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.
February 27, 2025
Eric Reinhart
RFK Jr.’s Mental Health Bait and Switch
The newly anointed HHS secretary is weaponizing legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric care to gut public services, abandon poor and disabled people, and expand the police state.
February 1, 2025
Eric Reinhart
The RFK Jr. Op-Ed the
Los Angeles Times
Didn’t Want You to Read
Eric Reinhart submitted a column critical of RFK Jr. to the troubled newspaper. What they printed under his byline bore little resemblance to what he submitted.
December 12, 2022
Eric Reinhart
The United States Is Crime Sick. Health Care Is the Cure.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle spent the midterms telling us that more police and prisons will make us safer. Voters didn’t bite—and perhaps they know better.
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