George Lakoff Articles on the Web
including Interviews and One Video Lecture
This page by Dr. Jan Garrett
This page revised August 31, 2009
1990-2000
The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf, by G. Lakoff (November 1991)
Metaphor, Morality and Politics, by G. Lakoff (1995)
Philosophy in the Flesh: G. Lakoff talks with John Brockman (ca. 1999)
2001-2005
Metaphors of Terror (September 16, 2001)
G. Lakoff, How Language is Used to Dominate in Politics (October 27, 2003)
Interview with G. Lakoff, by David Brancaccio (of PBS's "NOW") (2004)
G. Lakoff dissects the War on Terror (August 25, 2004)
G. Lakoff, Our Moral Values (The Nation, December 6, 2004)
G. Lakoff, Manifesto (on Framing) from Try Not to Think of an Elephant (2004)
Alex Steffen, Reframing the Planet (2004) (how environmentalists can use Lakoff's approach)
2006-2008
George Lakoff, Building on the Progressive Victory (12/2006)
George Lakoff et al., Logic of the Health Care Debate (2007)
George Lakoff, The Political Mind (video lecture, June 2008)
2009
George Lakoff, Why Environmental Understanding (or "Framing") Matters (Truthout, May 19, 2009)
George Lakoff, The Policy Speak Disaster for Health Care (August 20, 2009)
Related Items
Embodied Reason Other less political, and more philosophical, items inspired by Lakoff's approach