New York, Feb. 5 The cover piece wonders if Bush has "simply lost touch with political reality? Or has he actually lost his mind?" After diagnosing the president with narcissistic personality disorder, the author hands his lab coat to 16 popular media figures (including Slate's Dahlia Lithwick). Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter suggests that Bush suffers from a baby-boomer, Saigon-fell-because-we-quit hawkishness, while Lincoln biographer Joshua Wolf Shenk points to the president's "pathological optimism," and Deepak Chopra analyzes Bush's irking smirk
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