Evan Osnos

• Culture May 5, 2017

  In February, 2009, the British medical journal Brain published an article on the intersection of health and politics titled “Hubris Syndrome: An Acquired Personality Disorder?” The authors were David Owen, the former British Foreign Secretary, who is also a physician and neuroscientist, and Jonathan Davidson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University, who has studied the mental health of politicians. They proposed the creation of a psychiatric disorder for leaders who exhibited, among other qualities, “impetuosity, a refusal to listen to or take advice and a particular form of incompetence when impulsivity, recklessness and frequent inattention to
• Culture November 9, 2016

  Back in September, Evan Osnos looked ahead to what Trump’s first term would look like: “Aides are organizing what one Republican close to the campaign calls the First Day Project. ‘Trump spends several hours signing papers—and erases the Obama Presidency,’ he said.