Newspapers and Magazines
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Killer Bees, Misperception, and the Vietnam Mentality", The Pittsburgh New Sun, April 22, 1976.
Lee S. Weinberg and Richard E. Vatz, "The Candidate for 1976", The Pittsburgh New Sun, July 1, 1976.
Michael Margolis and Lee S. Weinberg, "Is the (Democratic) Party Really Over for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 8, 1978.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Imperial Pollsters", USA Today, September, 1978.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "When 'The People' Turn Into a Tyrant", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 27, 1978.
Lee S. Weinberg and Richard E. Vatz, "Polling the People Again and Again and Again. . .", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 11, 1978.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Rhetoric, Law, and Justice" The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 19, 1979.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "How Tough Will Jimmy Carter Have To Be?", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 21, 1979.
Lee S. Weinberg and Richard E. Vatz, "Nixon in 1980", The Washington Post, January 16, 1980.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Reaganspeak and the New Imperial Presidency", The Baltimore Sun, August 20, 1981.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Who's Crazy? Forensic Psychiatry and the Courts", The Baltimore Sun, June 2, 1982.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "President Reagan Grasps at the Issues", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 16, 1982.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Some Argue That Mental Illness Is a Myth", The Baltimore Sun, August 22, 1982.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg "Questioning a President", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 8, 1983.
Lee S. Weinberg and Richard E. Vatz, "Psychiatry and the Insanity Defense", The Baltimore Sun, March 27, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Hinckley and the Insanity Plea," The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, April 9, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The APA Statement on Insanity: Confusion and Contradiction," USA Today, September, 1983. Reprinted in Criminal Justice 85/86 (Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing, 1985).
Lee S. Weinberg and Alan Perer, "Better Times for Victims of Crimes," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 4, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Pretending Gambling is a Disease Deflects Us from Responsibility," Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1983, Reprinted in Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Why Not Sue A Psychiatrist?" The Washington Post, August 29, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Reasoned Debate: Illness and Behavior," The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Psychiatrists Don't Really Know," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 10, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Police Psychological Testing Fails to Get Passing Grade", The Pittsburgh Press, October 25, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Hyperactivity: Myth or Reality?", The Baltimore Sun, November 13, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Enough of Self-serving Apologies," The Baltimore News American, November 23, 1983.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Let's Take the Chill Off the Magnet School Registration," The Pittsburgh Press, January 9, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Ducking the Issue on the Insanity Plea," The Baltimore Sun, January 22, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Measuring and Shaping Public Opinion," The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, February 4, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Articles Reflect Uncritical Views of Psychiatry, "The Baltimore Sun, April 10, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Insanity Plea Bill Cruised Through Legislature Without Proper Scrutiny," The Baltimore News American, April 30, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Will Democrats Pick Nixon?" Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 11, 1984, Reprinted in Baltimore News American, June 4, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Somebody Cares About Kinship Among Mice," Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 6, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Debates: What They Revealed," The Baltimore Sun, June 6, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Sex Addiction," The Baltimore Sun, June 27, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Envelopes, Please," The Baltimore News American, July 1, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Free-Lancer," The Baltimore Sun, July 2, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "If You're A Candidate, You Can't Win," Baltimore News American, August 30, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Post-Watergate Media are Obsessed with Gaffe-Busting," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 20, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Quasi Pips," Baltimore Sun, September 27, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Debates May Not Sway Elections, But Their Insights Are Invaluable," Pittsburgh Press, October 5, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Getting Ahead," Baltimore Sun, October 18, 1984.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Sparse and Unscholarly Support for the Insanity Plea," The Baltimore Sun, January 13, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Inaugurals Past," The Baltimore Sun, January 21, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Freud Reanalyzed: Is Psychoanalysis Subject to Scientific Testing?", The Baltimore Sun, February 17, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "There's A Lot Psychiatry Doesn't Know About Criminals," The Baltimore Sun, March 15, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Definitions: Key to Winning in the Long Run", The Baltimore Sun, June 30, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Pathological Gambling - A Disease or a Public Drain?", The Pittsburgh Press, July 3, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Indulgence Epidemic", The Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1985, Reprinted in The Houston Chronicle, January 29, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Why Does Television Grovel At The Altar of Psychiatry?", The Washington Post, September 15, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Pulitzer Prize For Cheerleading?" St. Louis Journalism Review, October, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Threats As Felonies", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 1985.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Psychiatry: Science or Politics", The Baltimore Sun, January 26, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Word Traps," The Baltimore Sun, March 19, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Psychiatry and Television: An Unhealthy Alliance," U.S.A. Today, May, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Gambling: A Disease?" The Washington Post, April 2, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A New Category of Compulsives," Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 17, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Great and Not-So-Great Debates," The Baltimore Sun, June 1, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Political Debates Vastly Overrated," The Pittsburgh Press, June 6, 1986
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "New Employee Tests Keep The Old Twists," The Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Disputing Gamblers Illness," The Baltimore Sun, July 23, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Women, Politics, and Psychiatry," The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 15, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Grandiose Claims of the 'New Psychiatry', Newsday, October 3, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Myth of Tobacco Addiction," The Washington Post, October 7, 1986 (adaptation published in The Chicago Tribune, November 3, 1986).
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The ACLU and Ed Meese: Unwitting Bedfellows?", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 17, 1986.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Should Reagan Testify? America Isn't Ready for the Spectacle," The Baltimore Sun, December 17, 1986
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Crazy Brave Among Phony Toughs", The Washington Post, January 26, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "We Still Don't Know What Insanity Is," The Baltimore Sun, March 6, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Yet Another 'Most-Crucial' Reagan Test," The Baltimore Sun, March 21, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Science and Advocacy in the Courtroom," The Baltimore Sun, April 18, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Indefinable 'Disease' of Hyperactivity," The Baltimore Sun, June 3, 1987, (Reprinted in The Des Moines Register, July 29, 1987, and The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 25, 1987).
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Selling the Myth of the Pathological Gambler," The Baltimore Sun, June 22, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Politics of Psychiatry," USA Today, July, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The President's Speech: Great Expectations, Small Substance," The Baltimore Sun, August 16, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Polls: Was the Big Lead Created or Discovered?", The Baltimore Sun, September 27, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Making Opinion Instead of Measuring It: The Perils of Asking If Bush Is A Wimp," The Baltimore Sun, October 18, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "It Ain't True, But It's News," The Baltimore Sun, November 9, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Children: Dangerously Drugged At Our Hands", Newsday, December 2, 1987.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "What Is Alcoholism?", The Baltimore Sun, January 24, 1988, Reprinted in Los Angeles Daily Journal, January 25, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Where Was George While George Railed?", The Baltimore Sun, January 28, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Some Reflections on New Hampshire Vote," The Baltimore News American, February 18, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Dole's Big Victory: It Was In the Air," The Baltimore Sun, February 21, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "When To Release Criminally Insane?", The Baltimore Sun, March 10, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Rather Tense Nature of Bush Interviews," The Baltimore Sun, June 12, 1988, reprinted in The Pittsburgh Press, June 15, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Negative Images Stick to 'Velcro' Candidate Bush," The Pittsburgh Press, July 11, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Rating the Democrats' Speeches," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 28, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Problem, Or Is It A Sickness?", The Baltimore News-American, August 11, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Rating the Rhetoric", The Baltimore Sun, August 20, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Dan Quayle is Lacking Authenticity", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Hyperactivity Myth and Drugs in the Classroom," USA Today, September, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Advice to the Debating Candidates and Their Questioners," The Baltimore Sun, September 25, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Bush Won the Debate on Ideology", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 29, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Quayle Failed: Does It Matter?", The Baltimore Sun, October 7, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Dukakis, Avoiding Risks, Fails To Get 'Breakthrough'", The Baltimore Sun, October 16, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The History We Should Remember To Forget", The Baltimore Sun, November 13, 1988.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Wanted: A Way of Predicting Behavior of Criminals Released From Prison," The Baltimore Sun, December 25, 1988, reprinted in Newsday, January 8, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "'Psychosophistry' On The Homeless," The Washington Post, January 7, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "There's A New Skepticism Toward Alcoholism As A Disease", The Washington Post, March 7, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "In Defense of the Motivation of Therapists," The Baltimore Sun, February 26, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Tower's No-Drink Pledge Makes No Sense," The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 2, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Can Gambling Be Excused As A Disease?, The Baltimore Sun, July 2, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Confusion Over Alcoholism: Psychiatry, Medicine, and the Law Disagree," USA Today, September, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Arrogance of Predicting Dangerousness," USA Today, November, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Problem With 'Admitting the Problem', The Baltimore Sun, November 19, 1989.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "When An Admission Becomes A No-Fault Claim," The Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 13, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Guess-timates About Gambling," The Baltimore Sun, January 24, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Perspective on Letters to the Editor", The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, March 6, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, " Barry Avoids Responsibility For His Behavior By Blaming Alcohol", The Baltimore Sun, March 18, 1990, Adapted and reprinted in USA TODAY, September, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Those Who Can Teach," The Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Scholars Have Their Say", The Washington Post, April 7, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Walters Interview: No Guts and Much Glory", The Baltimore Sun, April 10, 1990.
Daniel W. Weinberg and Lee S. Weinberg, "Students Earn Failing Grades On Legal Rights," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 14, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Bush Speech Reveals Possible Course of Mid-East Policy," The Baltimore Sun, August 26, 1990. Reprinted in The Pittsburgh Press, August 27, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Teaching Us Values And Calling It 'Science'", The Baltimore Sun, September 15, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "State of Mind", The Baltimore Sun, November 13, 1990.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Let Killers Live: It's Cheaper For Everybody", The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 12, 1991.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Smith Case: An End to Rape Shield Laws?", The Washington Post, September 3, 1991.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Insuring the 'Mentally Ill,'" The Baltimore Sun, January 11, 1992.
David M. Korman and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Fair and Speedy Trial," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 1992.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Psychiatric Excuses for Criminal Behavior: The Public Is Losing Patience," USA Today, March, 1992.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Blueprint For Bush's Acceptance Speech," Baltimore Sun, August 19, 1992.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "New Study Provides Evidence Hyperactivity Overdiagnosed," The Baltimore Sun, September 13, 1992.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Presidential Debates Seldom Shake Solid Support," The Baltimore Sun, October 11, 1992.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Why 'Compulsive Gambling,' the Newest Addiction, Really Isn't,", The Washington Post, January 10, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Incoming Presidents Labor With 'An Inferior Art Form'," The Baltimore Sun, January 17, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Blanket Mental Health Coverage - Crazy," The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 1993. Revised and reprinted, "Is Everyone Crazy?", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 19, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Coverage Only For The Most Severe Conditions," The Baltimore Sun, June 8, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Media Make Risks Sensational," The Baltimore Sun, June 27, 1993
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Is Mental Illness A Myth?", USA Today Magazine, July, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Mental Health Myopia," The Washington Times, August 17, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Insanity of the Ron Price Case," The Baltimore Sun, August 18, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Not A 'Victim' To His Victim," The Washington Times, September 19, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Sort Out Mentally Ill From 'Worried Well'", Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1993.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Making Maryland 'the Therapeutic State'", The Baltimore Sun, February 13, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "TV On The Couch," Forbes Media Critic, Spring, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Howe Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nixon - Well, At Least Not Hate Him," The Baltimore Sun, May 1, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "A Windfall For The Worried Well," Governing, (May, 1994).
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Attention Deficit Delirium," The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Shapiro For the Defense," The Baltimore Sun, September 2, 1994, reprinted in The Pittsburgh Legal Journal, September 23, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Postscript: Psychobabble Revisited," The Forbes Media Critic, Winter, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Hyperactivity: Over Diagnosed and Over Drugged," Mothering Magazine, Spring, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Shrinking Clinton's Political Future," The Baltimore Sun, October 28, 1994, (Reprinted in Newsday, November 22, 1994).
Lee S. Weinberg, "About Those 'Outcomes:' A 'Transitional Outcome Assessment' of the Pittsburgh Schools' Strategic Plan," Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 10, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "News Media Should Focus Less on Excuses and Admit Evil Exists," Houston Post, December 15, 1994.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Strange Case of Denver’s Lenore Walker," Denver Post, February 4, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Cross-examining Rosa Lopez," The Pittsburgh Legal Journal, May, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "The Chung Conundrum," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Gambling is Not Pathological," The Baltimore Sun, October 20, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Crossing the Line," The Jewish Times, November 17, 1995.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Good Reasons For Caution on Mental Health Coverage, "The Wall Street Journal," June 13, 1996.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Better Late Than Never," Forbes Media Critic, Summer, 1996.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "Race, Jury Selection, and Public Confusion," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 15, 1996.
Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg, "‘My Fellow Americans....(and all that),’" The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1997.