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{ Monthly Archives } November 2003

As Other See Us: Will Hutton in London

     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 […]

Naming and Framing: George Lakoff’s Moral Politics

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 […]

Naming and Framing: George Lakoff’s Moral Politics

     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 […]

Online Populism Explained: An Hour with Joe Trippi

     “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 […]

Born Again in Blogspace: the Clark Community Network

     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 […]

The Blogging of the President 2004

   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 […]

The Blogging of the President 2004

    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 […]