Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, Global Politician, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He is the the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.

The parties to the Greek-Macedonian name dispute are using the term erga omnes ignorantly.

The PCL-R "test" is useless because it relies on input from pathological liars (psychopaths) and on witness testimonies decades after the events.

Finally, the facts about climate change and global warming.

The international community should step in to guarantee any agreement between Greece and Macedonia.

Are symbols"real" "things"?

Mathematics is a flexibl, realistic, universal language.

In December 2009, I predicted that the Dow-Jones Industrial Average will rise to 11200 and reverse. It did just that.

The entire psychodynamic landscape of the narcissist drives him towards infidelity.

Stalin was a mass murderer, just like Hitler. Why did the West side with the former against the latter?

I love the Pears Cyclopedia.

The Britannica must transform itself from an encyclopedia to an archive of the history of ideas.

The opaquenss of derviatives underlines their purpose.

Was swine flu a conspiracy? And, if so, by whom?

Aggression wears many forms, some of them surprising.

Vanity print publishing is the last hope of a dying industry.