Intelligence and Subversion of Intelligence

Camille Paglia, in addressing socialist tendencies of some American university students, said that the toilets in which they graffitied their slogans came from capitalism. There is a problem with that argument. There were toilets in the Soviet Union as well; and there are...

Youth, Commitment and Life-Owning Lies

The problem with people making life decisions when they are very young is that they do not come from the position of adequate knowledge. They know only what they have been taught; and if what they have learned were incomplete or corrupt, then it will take them a long time to...

Rational Interests and Ron Paul

As Ron Paul and others are waging a war on the government in the name of liberty, it is time to tell what they would rather not have you hear. And that is as follows: Without what they are attacking, they would have very little of what they have. I have nothing against...

The Second Middle Ages

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The fourth quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first herald a period akin, in some respects, to certain stretches of the Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages – especially...

Renaissance and Nazism as Ideas of Progress

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"The Renaissance as a reactionary idea of progress The Renaissance ("rebirth" c. 1348-1648) evolved around a modernist and, therefore, reactionary idea of progress. This statement is not as nonsensical as...

Public Intellectuals: Rise of Librarian and Decline of Author

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" There are two flavours of public intellectual: librarians and authors. Librarians possess a synoptic view of mostly trivial and anecdotal data, interspersed with histories, accepted truths, slogans,...

"Conventional wisdom", science, and conmen

My writing on a number of issues, such as challenging the conventional explanation of the fall of the Roman Empire, has been described as presumptious. The response is that, when conventional explanations are false, challenging them and replacing them is a service done to...

Who is scarce: A professor or army general?

Unlike those named professor with their political involvement and politicians interfering in academic institutions violating the universities’ independence, a real professor earns his professor status after many records of research and brilliant research outputs, best...

New Labour - UK Treasury – PURPOSE IS?.

News 04 12 2009: A NAO report confirms a mammoth £131 billion is expected in total taxpayer outlay on bank bailouts by the end of this year, including last year's Northern Rock nationalisation. An investment bank is being paid up to £300,000-a-month to provide financial...