Citizen Sane
The mainstreaming of therapy culture may be driving us all out of our minds.
Steve Salerno
Steve Salerno is a nonfiction author and widely published essayist who taught journalism and media studies at UNLV between 2017 and 2025.
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The Miseducation of American Journalists
Understanding what has gone wrong with journalism in the US requires an understanding of what has gone wrong with the country’s journalism schools.
“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Purity, Profit, and Politics
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
The Worst Racial Slur, In Context
Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity.
The Baby Gate. A Memoir.
So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.
Thinking the Unthinkable
Appeasement and deterrence in a nuclear age.
For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son
If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved.
Beware Psychotherapy That Works
Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds.
Media Contagion
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
The Burden of the Best?
From self-belief to self-care.