Dr. Brian L. Ragsdale
Psychologist - Educator - Writer - Artist
The Cultural Squeeze Report is a newsletter by Dr. Brian Ragsdale that examines the often-overlooked connections between culture, psychology, technology, and social power. Through essays and commentary, it helps readers make sense of the social changes shaping everyday life and explores what those changes mean for individuals, communities, and institutions.
Why The Cultural Squeeze Report?
Making Sense of Culture, Psychology, and Social Change
We are living through a period of rapid social, technological, and cultural change. New technologies are reshaping relationships, work, education, healthcare, and the ways people understand themselves and one another. At the same time, many people are experiencing growing uncertainty, loneliness, and mistrust of institutions.
The Cultural Squeeze Report was created to help make sense of these changes. Drawing on my background as a clinical psychologist, health disparities researcher, educator, writer, and artist, I examine the connections between personal experience and the larger systems that shape contemporary life. My goal is not simply to report on events, but to explore the psychological, cultural, and human consequences that often go unnoticed.
Through essays, commentary, and analysis, The Cultural Squeeze Report invites readers to think more deeply about the forces shaping our world and how we might respond to them with greater understanding, creativity, and purpose.