Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.