For men who have lived for a lifetime on a diet of contempt and disdain, the temptation to gain instant respect in this way can be worth far more than the cost of going to prison or even of dying.’ An...
And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There
All over the world, famous people began declaring themselves LeBon fans. Like Mussolini: I have read all the work of Gustave LeBon and I don’t know how many times I have reread The Crowd. It is a capi...
What’s the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them. He
The problem with Google is that it is forever evolving – adjusting its algorithm in ways it keeps secret.
If you get between the lawyer and his goal, you’re going to get hurt.
Trump was praising Operation Wetback — a 1954 endeavor in which Mexicans were rounded up and dumped in the wilderness, where they were stranded without food or possessions and 88 of them died in the h...
Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.
There’s an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.
The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the pers...
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it is...
Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN,
How you feed your family is not how we feed our family. For real. We’re not out here just for the fun and just for the show-and-tell. This is real life. I am finding myself ostentatiously nodding at e...
He did another experiment, the Startle Reflex Test, in which psychopaths and non-psychopaths were invited to look at grotesque images, like crime-scene photographs of blown-apart faces, and then when...
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power...
Glenn Beck did not fall into line. He told his listeners that Trump was a dictator in the making.
Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you’d expect of a psychopath.
But amongst a group who hadn’t read it an opinion was beginning to form,