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Language can frame political reality, something conservatives seem to grasp readily
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics With an 18th-Century Brain By George Lakoff Viking, 292 pp., $25.95 A better title for George Lakoff's new book, "The Political Mind," might have been "Invasion of the Brain Snatchers." Lakoff's provocative thesis is that for several decades "radical conservatives" have managed to change our brains, causing Americans to elect ... (Full article: 936 words)
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