Macedonia's Minister of Education Cleans Academe's Augean Stables

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Finally, a true reform: Macedonia's youthful and intrepid Minister of Education is attempting to overhaul the country's bloated academic institutions by introducing basic principles, long accepted...

Putin's Last Days?

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I. Putin's Twilight   Putin is losing his grip on power. His allies – not least former KGB and current FSB operatives – are deserting him in droves, put off by his recent economic failures, the ...

Greek-Macedonian Name Issue Myths Debunked

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The "name issue" involves a protracted dispute over the last 17 years between the two Balkan polities over Macedonia's right to use its constitutional name, "The Republic of Macedonia". The Greeks claim...

The European Union: Fear-driven, Defensive, and Phobic Project

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The European project variably known as the European Community and the European Union is driven by fear, not by promise. It is and has always been a phobic, defensive enterprise rather than a hope-filled ...

Democracy? Not for Third World

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The revenant (many would say ersatz) Egyptian, Mohamed ElBaradei, self-appointed and self-imputed leader of the "democracy" movement in his ...

Riots in Egypt about Food, not about “Freedom”

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-9, riots erupted all over the world, from Thailand to the Ivory Coast and from Yemen to Albania. For some reason, the demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt were...
 

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