George Lakoff, one of my linguistics professors at UC Berkeley, was recently interviewed about the state of conservative politics we find ourselves in today. Besides providing an interesting view of how conservatives have honed their language over the past couple of decades so that they control the very language of political debate, he also mentions the Rockridge Institute of which he is a cofounder. This is "one of the only progressive think tanks in existence in the US". I guess he couldn't bring himself to use the L-word. (Actually, he does use it.) [via rc3 dot org]
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