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I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all...

Jon Ronson

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all...

Tags: label, labeling, mental disorder, mental disorders

It's not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is the exact typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of 'Eyes Wide Shut' and '2001'.'It's Futura E...

Jon Ronson

It's not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is the exact typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of 'Eyes Wide Shut' and '2001'.'It's Futura E...

Tags: futura, futura extra bold, helvetica, humorous, stanley kubrick, stanley kubrick s boxes, typeface, univers

About Author
Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for works such as Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011).
He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories. He produces informal but sceptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, City Life and Time Out. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4.

A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person.

Jon Ronson

A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person.

Tags: shaming

I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening vi...

Jon Ronson

I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening vi...

Tags: shaming, social media

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

Jon Ronson

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

Tags: humorous, travel

These depictions of a broken America were also highly selective. When Ted Cruz listed the various ways Americans have had their lives destroyed — by terrorists, or police officers cut down in the line...

Jon Ronson

These depictions of a broken America were also highly selective. When Ted Cruz listed the various ways Americans have had their lives destroyed — by terrorists, or police officers cut down in the line...

This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else iro...

Jon Ronson

This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else iro...

Tags: irony, mother russia, the hunger games

Our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of...

Jon Ronson

Our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of...

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Jon Ronson

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Tags: default, vengeance

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone...

Jon Ronson

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone...

Tags: buildings, cadaver, humor, oppression, oppressive, ronald mcdonald, ugliness

Manipulative? I said. I think you could describe that as leadership, he said. Inspire! I think it’s called leadership. Are

Jon Ronson

Manipulative? I said. I think you could describe that as leadership, he said. Inspire! I think it’s called leadership. Are

After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. When we try to assess threats, he said, the kooks are...

Jon Ronson

After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. When we try to assess threats, he said, the kooks are...

The biggest lie, he said, is, The Internet is about you.

Jon Ronson

The biggest lie, he said, is, The Internet is about you.

Christopher Cerf has been composing songs for Sesame Street for twenty-five years. His large Manhattan townhouse is full of Sesame Street memorabilia – photographs of Christopher with his arm around B...

Jon Ronson

Christopher Cerf has been composing songs for Sesame Street for twenty-five years. His large Manhattan townhouse is full of Sesame Street memorabilia – photographs of Christopher with his arm around B...

Clive’s point was that the criminal justice system is supposed to repair harm, but most prisoners—young, black—have been incarcerated for acts far less emotionally damaging than the injuries we noncri...

Jon Ronson

Clive’s point was that the criminal justice system is supposed to repair harm, but most prisoners—young, black—have been incarcerated for acts far less emotionally damaging than the injuries we noncri...

If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling ‘jokes’ like he was doing at a conference.

Jon Ronson

If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling ‘jokes’ like he was doing at a conference.

There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. (interview...

Jon Ronson

There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. (interview...

I consider it somewhat psychopathic to label someone from afar as a psychopath. We love nothing more than to declare other people insane, especially people we don’t like.

Jon Ronson

I consider it somewhat psychopathic to label someone from afar as a psychopath. We love nothing more than to declare other people insane, especially people we don’t like.

If you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics....

Jon Ronson

If you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics....

Tags: politics

The biggest lie, he said, is, The Internet is about you. We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn’t about us. It’s about the com...

Jon Ronson

The biggest lie, he said, is, The Internet is about you. We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn’t about us. It’s about the com...