Lakoff interviewed on NPR’s On Point
Berkeley linguistics don George Lakoff came roaring out of academia and into political celebrity after the presidential election of 2004. Republicans, said Lakoff, were trouncing Democrats at the polls by using language to frame every debate their way. The proudly partisan professor said it was time for liberal progressives to fight back or fade away.
Now, Lakoff is making an even bigger claim: that American conservatives are rapidly redefining the idea of freedom itself — away, he claims, from its traditional American meaning and into something smaller and meaner, something dangerous.
– National Public Radio
