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The

Rockridge Institute

, according to its website, is "a group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society."



Its stated goals are to --





  • Reframe the terms of political debate to make a progressive moral vision more persuasive and influential





  • Develop public policies that will bring us closer to a society that embodies this vision





  • Unify progressives around a shared political program and a common moral language





  • Build links with activists, policymakers, the media, academics, and other key groups to influence the public agenda [1]





In this agenda, particularly the language of the first and third items, one can discern the influence of Institute fellow George Lakoff, a cognitive science professor at University of California, Berkeley, whose book Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think explores these themes extensively.

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Jessica Stites. Jessica Stites is In These Times' Deputy Editor. Before joining ITT, she worked at Ms. magazine and George Lakoff's Rockridge Institute. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms., Bitch, Jezebel, The Advocate and AlterNet.

Jessica Stites. Jessica Stites is In These Times' Deputy Editor. Before joining ITT, she worked at Ms. magazine and George Lakoff's Rockridge Institute. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms., Bitch, Jezebel, The Advocate and AlterNet.
Jessica Stites. Jessica Stites is In These Times' Deputy Editor. Before joining ITT, she worked at Ms. magazine and George Lakoff's Rockridge Institute. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms., Bitch, Jezebel, The Advocate and AlterNet.
He helped manage the late Ann Richards' winning Texas gubernatorial campaign and has run national campaigns for MoveOn.org and other groups. Glenn was a senior fellow at George Lakoff's Rockridge Institute at Berkeley and is now a consultant and senior strategist at Progress Texas. He is the author of "The Politics ...
The demise of Rockridge Institute demonstrates that the Democratic Party donor base hasn't yet gotten that message. Instead, masses of money have to be raised for candidates at the very last minute — for example a million dollars in one minute, the day before the big Pennsylvania primary. And almost all ...
The Rockridge Institute, a liberal think tank in Berkeley, will disband at the end of the month. From its inception in 1997, Rockridge sought to combat the domination of right-wing think tanks that for more than 35 years have spent billions of dollars shaping the public conversation on issues of taxation, ...
In this excerpt of the new book, Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision, A Progressive's Handbook by George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute, we identify several key concepts that the right wing has worked to redefine and introduce ways that progressives can begin to reclaim ...
For progressives to succeed in taking back this country, we need to stay true to our values and communicate them effectively. To accomplish this mission, we need to be aware of the traps that have often tripped up progressives in the past. In this preview of the new book, Thinking Points: Communicating ...
In 2000 Lakoff and seven other faculty members from Berkeley and UC Davis joined together to found the Rockridge Institute, one of the few progressive think tanks in existence in the U.S. The institute offers its expertise and research on a nonpartisan basis to help progressives understand how best to get ...


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