If you have been assaulted by somebody you thought you could trust, how do you restore your sense of trust in the world or in people? And how do you trust yourself?
Guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.
Connoisseurs of geologic form,
You could tell right away that Alex was intelligent, Westerberg reflects, draining his third drink. He read a lot. Used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he...
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLA...
When this casuistry came to light,
We’re disinclined to believe that someone who’s an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist.
There were more than fifty people camped on the Col that night, huddled in shelters pitched side by side, yet an odd feeling of isolation hung in the air. The roar of the wind made it impossible to co...
One man's faith is another man's delusion. . . .
It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn’t the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby. But
In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.
In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, speci...
I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.
I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.
I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me. I saw that I had been selfish and unbending and a giant pain in the ass. He’d bui...
At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn’t the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard.
To explore the inner country of his own soul.
Only between 5 percent and 20 percent of forcible rapes in the United States are reported to the police; a paltry 0.4 percent to 5.4 percent of rapes are ever prosecuted; and just 0.2 percent to 2.8 p...
How difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth . . . 'The older person does...
Bought my respect.