The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Another point of view... Evil Only Comes Where It's Invited Tracking ponerogenesis in history and Israel-Palestine HARRISON KOEHLI Jack Nicholson in  The Shining  (1980). When you act like a psychopath, you clear the way for actual psychopaths. Too many people believe in a cookie-cutter account of human nature, that everyone is basically the same, basically good underneath it all, and that we all have an equal capacity for evil. While this is untrue, there  is  a decent percentage of the population that has the capacity to act like a psychopath, if only for brief moments, or in certain contexts. Unlike a psychopath, however, they may come to feel some degree of remorse about it. If you open your newsfeed tomorrow to read some story about a murder in which the victim was found mutilated, castrated, his skin flayed and limbs dissected, your first thought might be that some new Jeffrey Dahmer or Richard Ramirez is on the loose. But it’s also possible the murder victim  is  the new Da

  Israel/Gaza: Ignore The Ugly Details. Focus on the Bigger Picture JAMES DELINGPOLE Today I’m going to give you the definitive version of what really happened during the Hamas incursion into Israel. As usual, I shall be providing lavish footnotes and copious hyperlinks to relevant web pages, plus lots of insights supplied to me by high-placed sources within the intelligence, military and political community.   Nah. Just kidding. As anyone who has been following me for any length of time will know that sort of approach just isn’t my style. I’m not a details man. I’m a big picture person. More specifically, I’m a pattern recognition person. It’s a skill I think may have picked up when I was an English Literature undergraduate and it’s something that, in all modesty, I’ve got pretty good at of late. You can take or leave what I say here, I really don’t mind. But as with Turner, the Robert Redford character in my favourite conspiracy thriller Three Days of the Condor, you underestimate me