In a recent episode of Make Me Smart, Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood interviewed George Lakoff, emeritus professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1996, ...
George P. Lakoff is falling asleep. It is a bright summer afternoon in San Francisco, and Lakoff is nursing a latte at a small table near the entrance of a bustling, sun-dappled cafe. “This is what ...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the budget crisis here in California. The state faces a projected deficit of $21 billion, according to a new report from the state’s budget analyst. The prospect for ...
A onetime adviser to Howard Dean, who hails him as “one of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement,” Lakoff is author of the election-year best-seller Don’t Think of an ...
George Lakoff is an impossibility. A hapless totalitarian clown of such extreme dimensions, a rational mind has to assume the possibility he isn’t real. He writes whole pages at a time in which every ...
“Happy Days Are Here Again” is the Democratic Party’s traditional celebration song, and it got some deserved play on election night. But now it’s time to turn up a new song with a different message — ...
THE ALL NEW DON’T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT! By George Lakoff Chelsea Green. 168 pp. Paperback, $15 Progressives, as a rule, do not look back with nostalgia at 2004 — a dismal, disempowering year, a time ...
In an interview with Lakoff in Vox Sean Illing talks to Lakoff about how Trumps’ tactics work for him through the response of the media. Lakoff argues that Trumps’ lies and half-truths, provide news ...
CBS News Reporter Eric Salzman is traveling with the Dean campaign. Who is George Lakoff and what's he doing with Howard Dean? George Lakoff is not the secret mastermind behind the Dean campaign. In ...