From NPR's "Fresh Air", from WHYY
Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?
By Geoff Nunberg
White-collar fraudster Bernie Madoff has been called a range of nasty names — from the Dickensian "scoundrel" to the clinically cruel "sociopath." Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the proper terminology for condemning Madoff.
Nunberg teaches at the University of California at Berkeley School of Information, and he is the former chair of the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel.