Sam Vaknin
Opting out of Democracy
In a scene reminiscent of the 1930s, all over the world, both the ultra rich and the masses…
Authoritarianism Scale
Like cancer, authoritarianism is a spectrum with clear and often ineluctable progression of egregiousness from one stage to…
Postmodern Monopolies and Oligopolies Good for Consumers, Economy
Anti-monopoly legislation and regulations around the world are antiquated, based as they are on 19th century realities of…
USA’s Hobson’s Choice: Personality Cult vs. Ideological Tyranny
In the forthcoming elections in the USA, the electorate faces a choice between a personality cult and an…
Shadow Libraries: The Future?
In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy…
The Signaling of War: Ukraine, Israel
War is not merely or even mainly about slaughtering and conquering. It is more often a form of…
Iran, the Next North Korea: Proxies Out, Nuclear In
Hamas’s incursion into Israel and its massacre of hundreds of civilians came as a surprise to everyone, first…
Regional War, Nuclear War
Regional wars erupt only when some of the parties involved perceive a power asymmetry that would allow them…
The Fallacies of Anti-immigration Ideologies
Xenophobic anti-immigrant sentiments are nothing new. Antisemitism is an early form of such a populist ideology, directed at…
Political Polarization as a Gender War
One much-neglected aspect of political polarization the world over is the gender war. In the USA, 31% of…
Clerical pillar of new autocracies
The post-modern variant of autocracy is a thinly disguised plutocracy or oligarchy, buttressed by a populist swell of…
The Durov Case: Regulate the Internet, Finally!
Pavel Durov was arrested on 24 August 2024 in France by its anti-fraud office, which is attached to…
How to Confront Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation
There are two types of fake info: goal-oriented and narrative-minded. The motivations behind these twin operations are different…
Ceasefire-Hostage Deal is Irrational Choice: Hamas-Israel (and Hezbollah and Iran)
With Gaza already reduced to rubble, its population decimated and displaced, and the IDF largely out of the…
Hostage Deal with Hamas: Israel’s Cognitive Dissonance
Israeli advocates of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal with Hamas, proffer the…