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Where Angels Fear to Tread David Brooks, pop sociologist and amusing, even insightful, commentator on Bobos, in and out of Paradise, blew it in his review of Rebecca Lemov's book on behaviorism. Like the advocates of intelligent design... |
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Politics by Other Means The article by Richard Redding (March, 2001) documents an astonishing level of ideological uniformity in the community of psychologists. Liberals rule. His solution is… |
We Are All Behaviorists Now…A few years ago in book (The New Behaviorism) that is in large part a critique of B. F. Skinner's fallacious extension of his brilliant experiments with animals to the problems of society, I pointed out that many who do not consider themselves behaviorists nevertheless accept his core… |
Education for What? or, Why was Sirrah so Smart? On February 22, 1818, Blackwood's Magazine published an letter from the ‘Shepherd Poet’ James Hogg recounting an extraordinary feat of animal intelligence... |
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The Weaker Sex (January 2005) Harvard President Lawrence Summers is in trouble. At a recent conference on economics, Summers apparently made comments that deeply offended some women in the audience…. |
The Tyranny of Diversity (Response to a published letter) I am a psychologist, though not a clinician, but I agree with your anonymous clinical-psychologist correspondent. He is correct to criticize the politicization of clinical psychology... |
Affirmative Action (response to Scott, J. W. (2002) The critical state of shared governance. Academe, July-August, 41-48.) Dear Dr. Scott: I read your Academe article on shared governance with some anticipation, expecting to cheer you on… |