This is a conversation I wish we’d had a year ago. Will Hutton, the Observer columnist and author of A Declaration of Interdependence, is on the line from London. “What I think American progressives often don’t realize is how fundamentally important it is for the rest of the world that America is progressive. Once it […]
George Lakoff of Berkeley is one of the giants of modern linguistics and brain sciences–an authority on neural networks, how the mind works, and most especially how the body politic responds to words that cue frames of moral meaning. He gave me a provocative earful the other day and I post it here in two […]
George Lakoff of Berkeley is one of the giants of modern linguistics and brain sciences–an authority on neural networks, how the mind works, and most especially how the body politic responds to words that cue frames of moral meaning. He gave me a provocative earful the other day and I post it here in […]
“I’m a Cortez guy,” Joe Trippi roared at the end of our conversation in the corner office of Howard Dean’s headquarters in Burlington, Vt. As in: Hernando Cortez, the Conquistador who faced the Aztec hordes five centuries ago with just 400 Spanish troops at his side, and burned his own boats on the beach in case his compatriots thought […]
Cameron Barrett’s rollout of the new Wesley Clark blog confirms the news that the modern presidential campaign is, at the core, a software production house. The Clark Community Network is a fascinating and, I say, admirable piece of work It’s a very advanced exercise in simulating Wesley Clark’s idea and ideal of communitarian democracy. It actually implements […]
Who is going to decode the Internet transformation of American politics? Not, alas, the New York Times, the best inadequate old newspaper we have. The Times “Week in Review” piece on Sunday, “Howard Dean’s Internet Push,” signed by Glen Justice, was a head-in-the-sand classic. The big news, the story said, is that an Internet […]
Who is going to decode the Internet transformation of American politics? Not, alas, the New York Times, the best inadequate old newspaper we have. The Times “Week in Review” piece on Sunday, “Howard Dean’s Internet Push,” signed by Glen Justice, was a head-in-the-sand classic. The big news, the story said, is that an Internet consultant’s […]