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.

Environmental preservation is a public good.

Books are still revered in Eastern Europe.

Chronic, painful disease is like a torture chamber.

Environmentalism is doing more harm than good.

Multi-ethnic and multi-cultural polities are inherently unstable.

Is our body a mere disposable container?

Energy security is an obsession, the outcome of the pseudo-scientific fads of peak oil and environmentalism.

If God exists, then He is necessary and vice versa. But, is it necessary that He exists?

The remedies to the global economic crisis are often more pernicious than the problems they aim to counter.

Macedonians have to choose between their identity and their European future.

Can God act against the Laws of Nature?

The roots of all humanity's ills is that there are too many of us.

Narcissists are hyper-sensitive and hypervigilant.

Children of narcissistic parents are scarred for life.

Narcissistic traits and behaviors are exacerbated by undeserved success.