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What's in a Word? Plenty, if it's "Marriage": George Lakoff analyzes the current debate over same sex marriage.
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics: Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust. An early and abbreviated discussion of the themes in George Lakoff's book, Moral Politics
Michele Norris' Interview with George Lakoff: The interview provides a short capsule of why Rockridge is needed to counter the Right's successes in shaping the language of political debate.
Inside the Frame: An Interview with George Lakoff: The interview examines how the current election can be understood with the tools of cognitive linguistics.
Two Models of Christianity: Chapter 14 of Moral Politics by George Lakoff compares religious and political thought.
Raising Real Children: Chapter 21 of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think.
A Cognitive Scientist Looks At Daubert: Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc (1993) has made our judicial system significantly less fair and more politically conservative. Daubert is not just about the application of some procedural rule. Daubert functions in its application as a strategic initiative that significantly moves America in a conservative direction, in the moral and political spheres, as well as in the legal sphere.
TheologyAndPolitics.pdf
George Lakoff Tackles Conservative Catchphrases in UC Berkeley Interview: George Lakoff sat down again with Bonnie Powell for a follow-up to an enormously popular interview published in October 2003. In this second interview, Prof. Lakoff looks at 'war on terror' and other conservative catchphrases, and discusses his forthcoming book, "Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate".
How to Respond to Conservatives: An excerpt from the book <a href="/bookstore/elephant">Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate</a>.
Framing: It's About Values and Ideas: Reframing is rethinking, sometimes a conceptual overhaul. The debate over reproductive rights demonstrates the conceptual work that needs to be done. A response to Katha Pollitt's piece in The Nation.
Crucial Issues Not Addressed in the Immigration Debate: Why Deep Framing Matters: Constructive critics of our paper The Framing of Immigration have suggested that we say more about immigration and American workers. We do that here. Other critics have misframed framing and attacked us for engaging in it. We respond.
George Lakoff Discusses "Tort Reform": Restrictions on tort lawsuits and other kinds of lawsuits are issues near and dear to conservative hearts. The following interview with Rockridge Senior Fellow, George Lakoff, explores various aspects of “tort reform,” including the manner in which conservatives have framed the discussion, the problem with the progressive response so far, and ideas for more effective progressive framing of the debate.
"War on Terror," Rest In Peace
Framing Katrina
Framing Versus Spin: Rockridge as opposed to Luntz: (c) The Rockridge Institute, 2006 (We invite the free distribution of this article) Two weeks ago, Rockridge <a href="http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/immigration"> published The Framing of Immigration</a> by George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson, an analysis of the framing surrounding immigration used by progressives and conservatives, as well as a discussion of framings not being used, but which would reveal important truths. Late last week, the DailyKos leaked a <A href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/25/125156/843">memo by Frank Luntz</a>, the Republican messaging strategist, advising Republicans how to talk about immigration. If you want to compare what Rockridge does with what Luntz does, this is your chance.
Bush Is Not Incompetent: Progressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush’s plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush’s “failures” and label him and his administration as incompetent. Self-satisfying as this criticism may be, it misses the bigger point. Bush’s disasters — Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit — are not so much a testament to his incompetence or a failure of execution. Rather, they are the natural, even inevitable result of his conservative governing philosophy. It is conservatism itself, carried out according to plan, that is at fault.
Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq: It is time to tell an inconvenient truth about Iraq: it is an occupation, not a war. In wars, armies fight to dominate land. The US won the war three years ago when Bush said, “Mission Accomplished”. Then the occupation started, and our troops were not trained or equipped for an occupation under predictably hostile circumstances. Finally getting the courage to tell the truth that the US is an occupying force drastically changes the picture in Iraq. You cannot “win” an occupation. “Cut and run” does not apply to an occupation. Occupiers have to leave; the only question is when and how. Progressive Democrats agree that it should be soon; they only disagree on details. Political courage is called for. Truth now!
Whose Idea of Freedom Will Shape America’s Future?: Editorial from the Boston Globe, Tuesday, July 4, 2006.
When Cognitive Science Enters Politics: A Response to Steven Pinker’s Review of Whose Freedom? in The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com/doc_posts.mhtml?i=20061009&s=pinker100906)
A Call for Progressive Unity
Staying the Course Right Over a Cliff
Beyond Beauty and Wonder: Understanding the Mind is Necessary to Understanding Politics
Building on the Progressive Victory
Framing, Death, and Democracy
Escalating Truth
The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War
Making Accountability Accountable
Progressive Taxation: Some Hidden Truths
The Framers Got It Right: Congress is the Decider: A Rockridge Institute Call to Action
Framing of Living Wage: George Lakoff contributed this chapter on the framing of the living wage to a guidebook called Winning Wages, published by the Media Alliance in 2004.
No Center, No Centrists
Iraq and the Betrayal of Trust
Don't Think of a Sick Child

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