Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she’ll say, ‘I can’t. My eyes are swollen,
As somebody back then wrote, Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.
An apology is supposed to be a communion—a coming together. For someone to make an apology, someone has to be listening. They listen and you speak and there’s an exchange. That’s why we have a thing a...
The suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element.
Predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, sex and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as th...
Partners in a lobbying firm with a client list that included a great many murderous dictators. Like
Name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could invent medications for, millions of new patients they could tre...
White supremacists were thrilled by Bannon’s appointment. One of them declared on a radio show hosted by David Duke, the former KKK leader, Something astonishing has happened. We appear to have taken...
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer....
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
This is bizarre, Dan said. I find it really strange—the way you’re approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter n...
The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only patients whose mental disorders were considered treatable could be detained...
The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was deceptive conduct of the grossest kind; the idea of a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circ...
Terrible things had been done in Haiti in his name. He had profoundly altered Haitian society for three years, set it spiraling frantically in the wrong direction, destroying the lives of thousands, t...
Social scientists have written papers analyzing Eshelman’s every move in there, including the strange detail that the more brutally he behaved, the more American South his accent sounded.
So after all of Joey's talk of science and preparation, I was imagining the corned-beef contest to be somehow more graceful and balletic. But as Shea counts down to zero and the eating begins, what I...
Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I
SPEAKING OF BURNING HUMANS — actual ones, as opposed to ones who existed only in Alex’s imagination — in the late 1970s, a left-wing Filipino journalist named Satur Ocampo was arrested in Manila by Pr...
Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic. I
Justice departments and parole boards all over the world have accepted his contention that psychopaths are quite simply incurable and everyone should concentrate their energies instead on learning how...