Podcast Episodes featuring George Lakoff

Linguist George Lakoff breaks down Trump's "tropes"

Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter - November 09, 2018 02:35 - 31 minutes ★★★ - 775 ratings
Renowned linguist George Lakoff joins Brian Stelter to discuss how Trump uses speech as a technique to manipulate audiences. "The media is not doing its job," Lakoff argues. He urges the press to not just repeat or negate what the president says about topics like the "caravan," but to come up wit...

(1) THOMAS FRANK What's the Matter with Kansas? (2) GEORGE LAKOFF Don't Think of an Elephant - both recorded in 2004

Free Forum with Terrence McNally - August 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Late summer 2004, I recorded conversations with Thomas Frank on What's the Matter With Kansas? and with George Lakoff on Don't Think of an Elephant. We were deep in two wars and three months from the Bush-Kerry election. Both Frank and Lakoff point to blind spots about the way we see the...

Free Forum - Two classic political interviews from 2004 THOMAS FRANK, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America GEORGE LAKOFF, DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

Free Forum with Terrence McNally - March 04, 2017 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Originally Aired in 2004 They noticed trends, asked questions, offered warnings and gave advice. "Why does the pro-life factory worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to...

George Lakoff - Enlightenments, Old and New

Point of Inquiry - April 25, 2011 19:21 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
Host: Chris Mooney George Lakoff is a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. But unlike many of his scientific peers, he's known as much for his work on politics as for his research. Lakoff the famed author of many books on why the left and right disagree about politic...