How Intellectuals and “Experts” Undermine Moral Agency

Like The New York Times and other leading liberal newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer frequently publishes articles which seek to persuade readers that criminals are really victims, and that, therefore, what they deserve is not retribution but “treatment.” Profoundly biased, contrary to common sense, and the result of what psychologists call ...


Give the Bigots a Pill

Get in line, all ye racists"€”they have a pill for you now. Last week, several supposedly respectable websites erupted in a blinding sunshower of bigot-hating joy at a recent Oxford University study involving a common blood-pressure ...

Losing Interest in Attention Deficit Disorder

I guess I haven’t been paying attention, but it looks as if a lot of you haven’t been paying attention. During an online forum discussion the other day, after I’d asked some guy about the 139-word sentence he’d just written, he ...

The Great American Pill Party

A report released Wednesday says that in 2010, one in five Americans took medication to relieve conditions broadly described as mental disorders. Such medications include antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, pills for attention deficit ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humanistic Psychology and the Crisis of Meaning

A new study predicts that organized religion is heading toward extinction in nine nations. On some levels, this may be grounds for rejoicing: less fanaticism, fewer infringements of individual liberties, and no religious wars. But there ...

The Ten Hardest Laughs I’ve Ever Had

Laughing your face off happens a lot more when you"€™re a kid than when you"€™re old. Remember those break downs in grade school when you"€™d have to hide your head behind a textbook because you were laughing so hard? Then the ...

Paging Dr. House

Once, in the years B. D. (Before Deinstitutionalization), Australia's mental hospital care took two forms. There was the public-asylum form. Then there was the private-clinic form. In the public-asylum form—Sydney's Callan Park, ...


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