The United States was until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and still is, in some important respects, a pre-Enlightenment, white supremacist society. It is rife with superstition, prejudice, conspicuous religiosity, intolerance, philistinism, and lack of social solidarity. Its religiosity is overt, aggressive, virulent and ubiquitous. It is replete with an eschatology, which involves [...]

   Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.By Sam Vaknin — Author of “Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited“

Within a single year, Barrack Obama had been elected to the Presidency of the United States and had won the Nobel Peace Prize. While the merits of the first achievement are debatable, there is a consensus, even among his most ardent supporters, fans, and [...]

By Sam Vaknin — Author of “Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited“
   Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.The propensity to extrapolate from past events to future trends is especially unfortunate in the discipline of History. Thus, the existence hitherto of a thriving multicultural polity does not presage the preponderance of a functioning multiculturalism in its future.
On the very contrary: [...]

Citizens are reporting dry runs in the skies of the Negev, Israel’s traditional air force training grounds and a desert with some resemblance to Iranian conditions. Piecing these scant testimonies together, it seems that the Israelis are concentrating their effort on midair refueling and surgical strikes on multiple targets.
By Sam Vaknin — Author of “Malignant [...]

By Sam Vaknin — Author of “Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited“
   Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.The pursuit of “energy security” has brought us to the brink. It is directly responsible for numerous wars, big and small; for unprecedented environmental degradation; for global financial imbalances and meltdowns; for growing income disparities; and for ubiquitous unsustainable development.
It is energy [...]