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 ...

George Lakoff, prominent professor, passionate progressive and frustrated citizen, burst onto the Washington political scene in mid-2004, after the publication of his book "Don't Think of an Elephant.

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, ...

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 ...

Berkeley, CA. February 24, 2009. As President Obama prepares to address a joint session of Congress, what can we expect to hear? The pundits will stress the nuts-and-bolts policy issues: the banking ...

Over at the Legal Insurrection blog, William A. Jacobson makes a plausible case that the Barack Obama/Elizabeth Warren line of argument valorizing the collective, government-provided goods that ...

Chris of Mixing Memory is doing us the service of a chapter by chapter review of George Lakoff's The Political Mind. This should be fun! I told Chris that reading Lakoff talking about the minds of ...

Steven Pinker has a piece where he slams George Lakoff in The New Republic. Unfortunately like much of the best stuff in TNR this is behind a pay wall, though The American Scene has posted a snip.

A supporter once told Adlai Stevenson, "Governor, every thinking person will be voting for you." "Madam, that is not enough," retorted the former Illinois governor and Democratic presidential ...

George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics and the bestselling Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, is professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley and senior fellow at the ...