Make social media random rather than scale-free.

Demand for drugs to cure spiritual problems suggests we have got the whole thing backwards.

We are merciless out of desire to blame others for the world's hardness and tragedy.

Denying an addict's will is a poor path to personal responsibility.

George Eliot reveals the cruelties and failures of shame as a form of social control.

Last year I quit drinking, and read a ton of Dostoyevsky. Sadly, I was unable to play the Dostoyevsky Drinking Game–which I recommend…