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Glenn Beck: Why do they hate him so? by John Staddon The New Criterion January 21, 2011 In January 2011, Vanity Fair published Tea’d Off, an article by Christopher Hitchens which is an attack on the Tea Party movement and its chief icon, broadcaster Glenn Beck. I have long admired Mr. Hitchens, for his prose, his erudition, his […]
Treasure Islands: Revealing but Naïve
• Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages, 2011, $27.00. Nicholas Shaxson is a well-traveled British investigative writer who specializes in international business. Treasure Islands is an investigation of the many ways that criminals and multinationals contrive to evade taxes by setting up “special purpose vehicles” […]
What’s it all about, Alfie? (and Fred)
In the right-hand corner, Professor B. F. “Fred” Skinner brilliant and creative proponent of an old idea – organisms (that’s you!) learn through reinforcement, carrot (big) and (small) stick: “Behavior is determined by its consequences” and “[teaching is] arranging contingencies [of reinforcement] which bring changes in behavior.” In the other corner is reinforcement-denier, multi-book-author Alfie […]
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