Sam Vaknin
Two Misconceptions: Trump, Palestine
But unlike Robin Hood and King David, when it comes to US politics, Donald Trump is a destroyer,…
Lessons From a Demographically Vanishing China
China’s one-child policy imposed, often cruelly, between 1980-2015 has been reversed. Now, couples can have up to 3…
Voucher Communities: One Solution for Youth Unemployment
North Macedonia (Brussels Morning Newspaper), Youth unemployment exceeds 20% in many parts of the EU, in China, Africa,…
Putin Deciphered: Napoleon III
Liberal parliamentarians (coupled with unbridled individualistic capitalism) seemed to irreversibly dominate the political landscape by 1890 - when…
Greece’s Homosexual Future: Same-sex Marriage and Parenting
Recent studies in animal sexuality serve to dispel two common myths: that sex is exclusively about reproduction and…
Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies
These economies feed off historical or economic conjunctures or crises. They position themselves as a bridge between warring…
Brexit Self-harming and Its Aftermath
Hard to tell. Global disruptions to supply chains, investments, and consumption owing to COVID-19, the wars in Ukraine…
Israel-Palestine: Two-state Solution Pipedream
The Palestinians purposefully maintain the only leverage they possess: their partly self-inflicted victimhood, a refugee status, now in…
Trust in the EU: It’s the Economy
Economics acquired its dismal reputation by pretending to be an exact science rather than a branch of mass…
The Democratization of War
Warfare, especially of the urban kind, has been taken underground, into indestructible tangled networks of tunnels. Cyberspace affords…
Antisemitism Reconsidered
“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the…
US Public Debt: The Next Great Depression?
Compared with the second quarter of 2022, the government debt to GDP ratio also decreased in both the…
Income, Justice, Fairness: A European Muddle
“Over the past few decades, European societies have witnessed unprecedented increases in inequalities in wealth and income. Faced…
Is Trump a Proto-fascist?
“What we are looking for here is the sort of person that slashes pictures, takes a hammer to…
Hawala: Hamas’s Private Banking
Hamas also controls, not to say appropriates, the $1.1 billion in annual transfers from the Palestinian Authority and…