February 2, 2006
Center for American Progress Releases Report on Domestic Surveillance
Earlier today, the Center for American Progress released, "NSA Domestic Warrantless Wiretapping and the 'Trust Me' President," a report by Senior Fellow Mark Agrast and Associate Director Ken Gude examining the domestic surveillance program. It argues that "[t]he administration’s campaign to defend the illegal spying program is nothing more than a smokescreen to cover up its failure to make real progress in protecting us from terrorists."
This is the first in a series of collaborative pieces between the Rockridge Institute and the Center for American Progress.
Rockridge Institute
George Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Visiting Professor at the Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1995) and at the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico (Summer, 1995).
RockridgeInstitute.Org resources by George Lakoff:
Articles
Framing: It's About Values and Ideas
Reframing is rethinking, sometimes a conceptual overhaul. The debate over reproductive rights demonstrates the conceptual work that needs to be done. A response to Katha Pollitt's piece in The Nation.
Simple Framing
An introduction to framing and its uses in politics.
What's in a Word? Plenty, if it's "Marriage"
George Lakoff analyzes the current debate over same sex marriage.
How to Respond to Conservatives
An excerpt from the book Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate.
Framing Katrina
"War on Terror," Rest In Peace