Psychologist and author Scott Barry Kaufman joins Reason's Nick Gillespie to discuss his new book Rise Above, which challenges the growing embrace of victimhood as identity. They explore how traits such as neuroticism and vulnerable narcissism are shaping modern culture, why social media rewards grievance over growth, and what it really takes to develop a more flexible, empowered sense of self. Kaufman reflects on his own journey from special education to Carnegie Mellon and beyond, explains why tough love and radical honesty are essential tools for transformation, and offers a humanistic vision of how individuals and societies can move beyond resentment and reclaim purpose.

0:00—Introduction

1:30—Limiting beliefs come from our past.

6:00—The victim mindset

10:49—What is vulnerable narcissism?

12:12—Kaufman's experience in special education

17:35—Childhood trauma from summer camp

21:49—Narcissism is a defensive posture.

26:24—Kaufman's unconventional path to Carnegie Mellon

31:09—Group victimhood and empowerment

37:40—Why coddling and tough love are both wrong

41:55—Embracing optimism in the face of darkness

48:00—Developing a flexible identity

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Scott Barry Kaufman: Incels, Narcissists, and the Victim Mindset

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Donald Trump is using his second term to assault free speech and get revenge against his political enemies and others who fail to bow to his magnanimousness. 

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This week on the Global Research News Hour we focus the spotlight on long time friend and colleague James Corbett, host of the Corbett Report on the arrival of his brand new book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, a book that explores the podcasters journey through the many topics that should concern listeners but that is ignored and suppressed in mainstream media, including the false flag theory of the 9/11 attacks, the control by elites of both the Left and the Right, the capture of science and environmental concerns and much, much more. 

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Free Speech only for some in the UK

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Ray Vahey is the founder and CEO of BitChute, the free speech video platform created in response to widespread censorship on Big Tech platforms. A longtime advocate for internet freedom and privacy, Ray built BitChute as a censorship-resistant space where creators can speak freely without fear of deplatforming. Under his leadership, BitChute became the only tech platform to proactively withdraw from the UK rather than comply with what he calls “government overreach” under the Online Safety Act. Ray is an outspoken critic of surveillance tech and centralized moderation systems, and is now positioning BitChute as a privacy-first platform — becoming the first to offer VPNs to all members as part of its pro-privacy mission.

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Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement. Labour is a capitalist and imperialist party, thoroughly embedded within the bourgeois state apparatus. It in no way seeks to challenge either the economic wage-slavery of workers or existing property relations. And as we have repeatedly seen, it does not reverse but instead routinely utilises and extends all the repressive legislative and state means of suppression of the British working class.


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The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

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No cooperation with genocide. Defend our rights. Anti-zionism is not a crime! Unable either to hide their complicity or to justify it, western countries are turning to over repression to try to criminalise the Palestine solidarity movement. In the face of this attempt to silence dissent, we must redouble our efforts to organise a mass movement of non-cooperation with every aspect of the zionist and Nato war machines.


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Our health service is well advanced on the road to total privatisation. Amongst many scandalous signs of NHS decline, corridor care has become so widespread that hospitals are even advertising for ‘corridor care specialist’ doctors.
Amongst many scandalous signs of NHS decline, corridor care has become so widespread that hospitals are even advertising for ‘corridor care specialist’ doctors.
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A nurse's view of the continuing sabotage of the NHS

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave to discuss the $1.5 billion renewal of South Park and why the show remains one of the most important libertarian pop culture creations of the past 30 years. They reflect on its enduring relevance, its crude but effective political metaphors, and its broad appeal across ideological lines. The panel also revisits the fall of Gawker and what it revealed about public trust in media, then turns to President Donald Trump's new AI executive order and the growing tendency to frame tech policy as part of the culture war. A listener question sparks discussion of Trump's deregulation record and how it connects to the One Big Beautiful Bill, followed by a look at the latest developments around a potential government shutdown.

00:59—South Park's renewal and the political implications

08:19—Late night TV, the Paramount merger, and cord cutting

17:20—The legacy of Gawker's collapse

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36:05—Listener question on Trump's deregulation track record

42:24—Are we heading toward another government shutdown?

50:52—Weekly cultural recommendations

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South Park Is Saving Free Speech!

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The punishment administered to this high-profile football pundit is a warning to all: complicity or silence are the only acceptable responses to imperial slaughter. What happened to Lineker is not just about Palestine or a social media post; it is about the limits of acceptable speech under a capitalist regime in deep crisis.

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Gary Lineker the price of speaking out

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by special guest Reem Ibrahim, head of media for the Institute of Economic Affairs. They begin with Jim Acosta's AI-generated interview featuring a deceased child urging gun control, using it as a springboard to discuss nationwide declines in violent crime and the political tendency to focus on banning specific tools. The conversation then shifts to the White House's decision to deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and the dangerous precedent this could set for using federal forces to address local crime.

The panel then turns to President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss Ukraine, weighing whether it could lead to peace or embolden authoritarian demands, as well as the role of European nations. From there, they examine the decision by Texas Democrats to flee the state amid redistricting battles and the FBI's efforts to locate them. A listener question from the United Kingdom prompts a conversation about free speech restrictions and the growing use of psychological studies to justify censorship, leading into a discussion of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's (FIRE) lawsuit against the Trump administration over immigrant First Amendment rights.

0:00—Media exploitation of children for gun control

11:02—National Guard deployed to D.C. amid falling crime rates

15:02—Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska

25:51—Texas Democrats flee state over GOP redistricting map

35:35—Listener question on free speech rights in the U.K.

47:00—FIRE lawsuit against Trump administration over protected speech

54:55—Weekly cultural recommendations

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Lower Crime Hasn't Stopped Gun Control Push

https://thecommunists.org/2025/08/21/leaflets/resistance-not-a-crime-support-mo-chara-palestine/

Workers, artists and political groups must demand our right to a voice, and to independent political action. When the mural in support of Liam Óg/Mo Chara was unveiled in Belfast, Kneecap wrote on Twitter: ‘West Belfast knows political policing. West Belfasts knows colonialism. West Belfast knows solidarity.’

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Resistance is not a crime! Support Mo Chara! Support Palestine

In this special live episode of The Reason Interview, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch reflect on the shocking murder of Charlie Kirk and the broader implications it carries for American politics. They discuss how his killing fits into rising concerns about political violence and what it signals about the nation's increasingly volatile climate.

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Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence

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Joti Brar:

Earlier this week I talked with Garland Nixon about rising discontent in the imperialist heartlands as the economic crisis bites and conditions for workers become ever worse. When inflation is wiping out pay and increasing numbers of people are homeless in the richest countries in the world, is it any wonder that more people are starting to look favourably at the alternative (ie, at socialism)?

We talked about the militarisation of the police as governments prepare to suppress rising dissent and unrest. And we talked about the militarisation of the economy as governments prepare to put the whole of society on a war footing.

We also looked at the role of the new home secretary Shabana Mahmood, a muslim woman whose job will be to front up the ruling class’s pro-zionist, anti-free-speech and anti-immigrant regimes here in Britain. 

We discussed the situation where police in Britain continue to carry out mass arrests of peaceful protestors holding cardboard signs in solidarity with proscribed organisation Palestine Action, even as British armed forces continue to participate directly in the genocide in Gaza.

With all this evidence, it's time we woke up to the fact that neither the capitalist state machinery nor the bourgeois electoral system can be used to solve the very urgent problems we face. 

Instead of praying for justice (from a weighted and inherently unjust system) and nicer leaders (to front up a system of ruthless exploitation) we need to organise ourselves to dismantle this machinery of war, repression and exploitation and build a state of a new type – one where the working class wields power and takes decisions in its own interests.
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