Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist and public intellectual whose groundbreaking work on the psychology of genocide shaped Holocaust and Jewish studies for the past 40 years, died on Sept. 4 at his ...

He peered into the darkest corners of humanity and remained an optimist. By Jonathan Mahler When Robert Jay Lifton visited Hiroshima for the first time in the spring of 1962, he spent five fevered ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Robert Jay Lifton M.D. is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Speech as a Lecturer for the Department of Psychiatry in the ...

In his new book, 97-year-old Robert Jay Lifton shares the "survivor wisdom" he's learned from those who've lived through terrible events — the... In 1968, at the age of 42, psychiatrist Robert Jay ...

Introduction: Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, colleague, author, role model and inspiration, has been a pre-eminent scholar of the psychology of totalitarian systems, both in state tyrannies and in ...

A queasy mix of awe and anxiety consumed me after I viewed “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan’s exceptional film chronicling physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s single-minded quest to build the ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Robert Jay ...