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What follows is a comment left beneath a CNN interview with Bill Browder. Putin’s “Malignant Narcissism” with its “messianic delusions of grandeur” has his coconut set…

Having approached this topic quite a few times over the years, I’m loath to either repeat myself after this or in the way of academics elaborate and make a career on top of a kernel of bullet…

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Kevin Baron: Rightly aggrieved journalists are missing the bigger story

Given a decent theory of the process by which malignant narcissists become so, it follows that denial covers the initiating or repeated narcissistic mortification–whatever imparted the humili…

I asked AiLaMer, my personalized Gemini AI assistant, for reference cogent (2026 only) to “”U.S. low policy support for democracy” and related efforts obtaining less coverage or n…

I played with Open AI for the above illustration and will live with it’s mysterious interpretation of instructions. Most fundamental to my nation’s predicament may be the misapprehendin…

JSO: On X, the work with the quote appears under the hashed Trump-Putin — and, in fact, the two are just the type fearful of their own uncovering (childhood humiliation and shame) and derange…

This excerpt from my conversation with ALM touches on the most salient features of the Trumpian takeover of the nation. Note by JSO: I’ve lightly edited the excerpt and added some features &#…

ALM had suggested working up case studies and listed as examples a few of the disposed: Ali Khamenei, Viktor Orban, et al. But they’re all finished! Well, yeah, but of course . . . . JSO: I o…

Analysis of presidential profiteering under Trump and a proposed solution to restore public trust in government.

My suggestion: after the Soviet Union dissolved in bankruptcy on December 25, 1991, Bolshevik and disaffected criminal KGB were able to pry themselves back into power by the early-mid 1990’s.…

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the church received official privileges including the right to import duty-free alcohol and tobacco. In 1995, the Nikolo-Ugreshky Monastery, which is directly su…

Nazism inflicted history’s most horrendous crimes against Jews. But Germany has by no means been history’s top purveyor of global antisemitism. That distinction goes to Russia, which spread antisem…

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