Category: The Psychopath Epidemic

Classic Military Keynesianism Mar 2026

In “The Psychopath Epidemic” I explained how the USA’s economy, since WWII, has been largely based on Military Keynesianism. Most people understand that the United States spends a…

The Great Socialism Experiment Dec 2024
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How We Treat Whistleblowers May 2024

I wrote in The Psychopath Epidemic that you can tell a lot about the culture of an organisation by the way they treat whistleblowers. Would a healthy culture…

Queensland Police “Cultural Issues” Nov 2022

It sounds like the QLD Police have a psychopath problem. Again.

Trump’s Psychopathology Isn’t The Real Problem Aug 2020

The real problem is the system that let someone like him become President in the first place.

Psychopaths in the military Jul 2020

We tend to shun the concept of the willing killer because it offends our kinder sensibilities, but a controlled psychopath is an asset on the killing fields. Those…

Special Forces Psychopaths Jul 2020

“Members of elite or special forces are high functioning psychopaths,” writes CJ Werleman. He points out that they are sometimes referred to as “compassionate psychopaths” – which seems…

Psychopaths In Government – And In Trunks Jul 2020

Psychopaths are everywhere in the news today but nobody (except me) is calling them that. Which is part of the problem. We don’t recognise psychopathy when we see…

Narcissistic Leaders Jul 2020

I just read this great post by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (Chief Talent Scientist at ManpowerGroup and a Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL) and Columbia University,…