We Care For Ourselves and Others in Trump’s America

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The events of the last few weeks have shown us that we are fully living in Trump's America, with a president who is slow to condemn the actions of white supremacists. The realization has been exhausting. This week, we take a step back to think about what the political moment is doing to our emotional and physical states. We discuss our routines of self-care — and investigate the origins of the phrase, and why it feels overused and even a little cliche. We also talk to Dr. Matthew Steinfeld, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine about our ailing country and get a few ideas for how to remedy ourselves, and perhaps each other.

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wertham. I'm Wesley Morris. We're two culture writers the New York
0:05.8	Times. Coming to you live from Wesley's Stupin Brooklyn.
0:18.0	Why are we on my street? Well I'm picking you up because I want to go to the
0:22.7	store that's right around the corner from your apartment. One of the best
0:25.6	stores in Brooklyn for holistic and herbal and various plant medical things.
0:31.4	I have a shopping list of items that I need. I got to stock my pantry for fall to
0:36.9	get ready for the transition between the seasons but also like let's be real
0:39.9	times or tough times or dark and I'm not just talking about the solar
0:43.0	eclipse I'm talking about the state of the union and we need tonics and
0:47.8	healing things to take care of ourselves each other. So we're gonna go to the
0:51.7	store. We're gonna run my errands. You're gonna you're gonna buy a bunch of
0:55.2	get all the stuff to heal the country and then what we'll do is we'll go record
1:00.5	the show and then afterwards we'll come back to my stoop and we'll talk about
1:04.8	what we got. Perfect. That sound good. Let's do it.
1:15.2	We were in the studio. We were on my stoop. I don't know why we just didn't do
1:21.1	the show on my steps but that's fine. It is it is actually better in here and
1:25.5	I'm not sweating anymore so. Yeah it was real steamy. What's happening? What's on your
1:29.8	mind? What's been going on in your life? Wesley. Yeah. You don't watch this show
1:34.3	so you don't know but Game of Thrones is wild and right now it is getting so
1:39.4	crazy and like plot twists and plot points and who's related to whom and who's
1:45.1	gonna sleep with whom next? Aside not a big deal. Whatever. I'm along for the ride.
1:49.3	What I'm interested in is that this season has somehow managed to centralize
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