Incentives and Man-Woman Relationships

I've been called everything from feminist to misogynist, and mostly these statements say more about people saying them than they do about me. I am neither for nor against either women or men. The world will always have both, and we will always see good and bad choices made by...

Principled Loyalty: Combining Loyalty and Ethics

The issue I am about to address is one of which I have thought for a very long time. It is a relationship between loyalty and ethics. From what I have seen, the best way to handle this matter is to advocate what I call principled loyalty.There are some people who see it as...

Ingredients of Friendship

I'm writing on a subject that has relevance to many people, regardless of their politics or their beliefs. That subject is friendship.I used to be terrible at making and keeping friends. I am better at it now, and I would like to explain to people how it is done. A person who...

True Humility; False Humility

Much thought about humility, and how to instill it, is wrong. True humility comes from a realization that other people have valuable qualities, not from the belief that one does not have valuable qualities himself. When defined and practiced this way, humility becomes a...

Art, Business and Legacy of Beauty

There are many people in America who believe that they do not have time for art. My response to them is that, if America has the time for - right-wing radio talk shows, tele-evangelists, political correctness, personality psychology and global warming deniers - then it most...

Narcissism: the New Norm

In recent studies, two out of three people in the United States have been found to score high on the narcissistic personality disorder.The real-life meaning of this is that this disorder is, for all intents and purposes, meaningless.If the majority of the population has a...

Note To Gay Son From Dad Becomes A Novel

Upon reading a heartfelt note that a father posted on his son’s door, author Robert Joseph Greene became inspired to write a novel about the event. A high school reader for ages 14-18, Would You Mind? is a LGBT story about a young boy named Nate who meets and falls in ...

Humanitarianism and Misanthropy

Whenever I hear sentiments such as "I hate people," what I see is in most cases is a crisis of faith.Christianity and Islam believe that people are evil, and people who follow these creeds are not surprised to see human ugliness. Whereas someone who believes in people's...

Impulse Control and Narcissistic Fear of Failure

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Many narcissistic defences, traits, and behaviours revolve around the compulsive need to sustain a grandiose self-image of perfection (“perfectionism”.) Paradoxically, deficient impulse control helps ...

White Racism and Black Racism

The relationship between white Americans and black Americans has been a difficult one; and the reasons for that can be found in both sides. A lot of white Americans believe that the white people are better than the black people, and a lot of black Americans believe that white...

Gender Debate: Hitler and Stalin

There are two sides of town. On one side of town, violent and abusive men are horrible to women who are beautiful, warm and compassionate and insist on treating them like dirt. On the other side of town, nasty and mean-spirited women are ugly to men who have goodwill toward...