We’re raised to believe that deep down everyone has a conscience. At
Maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I
Deciding that instant judgment was a more heroic stance than curiosity. When
We don’t want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.
We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are . And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.
This was not a simple case of taking an otherwise normal, well-balanced, rational human being, putting him in a bad situation, and suddenly he turns bad, he said. I faked it. He explained. The first n...
They’ll be brought great distances, Trump had said. We’re not dropping them right across. They learned that. President Eisenhower. They’d drop them right across, and they’d come back. Then when they f...
Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels.
One of my dad’s colleagues said, She wants to paint with her shit. Maybe we should give her paints. And it worked.’ Mary Barnes eventually became a celebrated and much-exhibited artist. Her paintings...
Michael Fertik took me for dinner and talked to me about the criticism people often level at him, that ‘any change of search results is manipulating truth and chilling free speech’. He drank some wine...
I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity?
It was a heartbreaking story. He closed his eyes tightly as he told it, so I took the opportunity to quickly check Twitter. I hate not knowing what’s happening on Twitter.
In these exciting times for people who thrive on chaos, Trump had emerged from the polluted waters of Twitter like a mutant fish, and the world could not believe its eyes.
In regular circumstances, 60 percent of criminal psychopaths released into the outside world go on to re-offend. What percentage of their psychopaths had? As it turned out: 80 percent. The Capsule had...
If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming.
I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We a...
I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.
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...
At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?