Proud Boy A Documentary Film of the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capital (featuring the Proud Boys) Reviewed by Lloyd I Sederer MD On January 6, 2021, wielding an army’s worth of guns and other deadly arms, an unhinged mob of tens of thousands stormed the US Capital intent on overthrowing the results of 2020 US Presidential election. The insurrection, carefully planned for months, drew malcontents from throughout the United States. Their aim was to declare Donald Trump

Dear colleagues and friends, I will be doing an 8-week, 90-minute, evening, zoom,  Non-fiction Writing Workshop.                                                                                                        I am pleased to offer this workshop, which I did for 26 sequential semesters at Columbia Medical School and continued at The Columbia School of Public Health, as well as by on-line, hosted sessions. My writing workshops often were over-subscribed; many of the ~800

A Series Review, streaming on Netflix By Dr. Lloyd Sederer Clare Danes, Matthew Rhys Source: Netflix She’s (Aggie Wiggs, played with mounting suspense and terror by the gifted Clare Danes) a hugely successful writer who, for two years, cannot put words to paper for her next book, which she knows is as best a soporific; while she is running out of the advance money, and the patience she has been granted by her publisher. Her grief and fury are near the breaking point some four

The Kindness of Strangers A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer As a boy, my family lived with my grandparents in an attached 3-decker, brick house in the north Bronx. My mother’s parents had fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe (antedating the Fascist Holocaust), penniless and homeless, ‘settling’ into the tenements of New York City’s lower east side. When I had asked them about the lives they had before they came by “steerage” to the US, they deftly avoided answering. I could no