George Lakoff columns

In 1994, Newt Gingrich, brandishing his Contract with America, led a Republican revolution that swept aside Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, initiating an epoch of conservative ascendancy that lingers on. Don Sipple, a Republican campaign consultant, declared at the time that the 1994 ...

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UC Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff has proposed that the way we think about concepts is fundamentally metaphorical. In other words, we don't simply talk with metaphors, we think with them. We rely on what is simple and familiar to us, like money, to understand what is more complex and distant, ...

It's hard to fault mental health advocates for trying, since attention to mental health is seldom as sharp as in the aftermath of a mass shooting. But, as UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus George Lakoff wrote in a tweet on March 1, “When you repeat a false narrative for any reason (even to criticize it), you spread ...

Populist conservative firebrand Steve Hilton had a long and compelling career before becoming one of the newest hosts on the Fox News Channel. Hilton grew up in the United Kingdom, the son of a Hungarian hockey player and political refugee. He went on to work for Britain's Conservative Party, and ...

Retired UC Berkeley linguist George Lakoff is being dragged into a legal fight over comments he made about possible Russian influence on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Lakoff was slapped with a libel and slander suit by Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze — a Georgian American businessman who ...

President Donald Trump's use of social media has radically transformed presidential communications. His short bursts of text move markets, disrupt diplomacy and inflame political anxiety almost daily. His smartphone has become one of the most powerful weapons in political history. As a result, there's a ...

On MSNBC's The Beat, George Lakoff explained Trump's mastery of "preemptive framing" and why the argumentative Democratic response only .... a cognitive scientist who's worked with Lakoff for the better part of a decade, points to a 2011 Stanford study that presented participants with an article about ...

George Lakoff, retired UC Berkeley professor and author of Don't Think of an Elephant, is one of a very few people in Berkeley who does not underestimate Donald Trump. “Trump is not stupid,” he tells anyone who will listen. “He is a super salesman, and he knows how to change your brain and use it to his ...

It's driven by a will to total dominance, underwritten by the hierarchy of values that George Lakoff calls “stern paternalism,” putting men above women, whites above minorities, Americans above all other countries, and humans above all other living things. Trumpism calls it a return to greatness (a.k.a., “Grab ...