"But just as no one can live a happy and productive life in nonstop self-criticism, nations require more than facts—they need stories that convey a moral identity." Why? 15th-century peasants didn't need this. Why do we? theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Ladies and gentleman, we got him This is a perfect encapsulation of the Sacksian world view: Complete and utter confidence you invented something you categorically and verifiably did not

Yes, and if we required murderers to sit on their own juries, murder would also be de facto legalized. This is no way to run a society. At some point you have to say that the thing is self-evidently the crime it was and we don’t care if the people who did it disagree.

Honestly if I was writing a case study for a psychology textbook I would reject Trump's psychopathic narcissism case as too over the top and spot-on to be usable.