Professor George Lakoff's (George Lakoff) work shows how framing language can guide our experiences and behavior. How can we design new frames to empower civil discourse and build a sustainable future? 🎧 Listen to the full discussion here: youtu.be/yBglQugobBI

How to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.

Desperate for 'Despotism'? I wrote about that weird NYT op-ed and how fear/ uncertainty make people more susceptible to "strict father" authoritarianism. But dictators don't settle for dollops of power, and they don't solve crises -- they create them. theframelab.org/amy-chozick-lo…

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." – Louis D. Brandeis

The worst problems of the 21st century stem from the fact that a handful of greedy individuals and corporations have chosen to sacrifice the public good for their own private profit. It's time to frame the problem in clear, simple, moral terms. More: theframelab.org/joe-bidens-far…

Democrat California governor Gavin Newsom decided it was a good thing to interview unrepentant racist Charlie Kirk on his first podcast. Yes, the Charlie Kirk who said #MLK doesn’t deserve a holiday. Yes, the Charlie Kirk who said he wouldn’t ride in an airplane with a Black

To quote MAGA: You can't trust a guy who screwed his best friend's wife. Now, with his pivot to MAGA, Gavin Newsom is trying to screw the Democratic base that fueled his political rise. It won't work. My take on Newsom's desperate and cynical strategy theframelab.org/why-gavin-news…

What do Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s self-proclaimed “Cognitive Elite” really want? Fascinating -chilling- podcast - tune in! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Elon Musk and the ‘cognitive elite’ take Washington — our podcast episode this week w/guest gil duran was alarming/illuminating. Jane Mayer Evan Osnos Hope you can take a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

31 years after Jamaica Kincaid told me to keep writing (and signed my The New Yorker), I finally made the grade... Talking about my work to expose tech’s hostile takeover of the USA with Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser and Evan Osnos on the Political Scene podcast 🎙️🔥 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

"An ideology of tech supremacy." gil duran breaks down tech’s destructive agenda in Washington on The New Yorker’s Political Scene pod with Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Evan Osnos. 🎙️🚨 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

-The tech oligarchs are an existential threat to democracy. -Trump follows the logic of a suicide bomber. -Any Democrat who supports crypto is on the side of the tech billionaires. All this and MORE in my interview in the New York Times:

How can we neutralize Trump's fear-mongering and save what's left of our democracy? POWER IN NUMBERS A simple plan to make America more progressive, fast. New from me in gil duran and George Lakoff's FrameLab Newsletter. theframelab.org/harnessing-col…

Last week, a board member of Politico’s parent company blasted its reporters for alleged bias. Meanwhile, Peter Thiel quietly invested $50M in the son of Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. The younger Döpfner's nickname? “The German JD Vance.” Let's talk about it 👇

What can the rise of "WEIRD" and its quick murder at the hands of consultants teach us about the Democrats' messaging crisis? For gil duran and George Lakoff's FrameLab Newsletter, I looked at why elected Democrats are terrified of pleasing their base. theframelab.org/what-weird-rev…

Foam & Loathing Among The Tech Fascists: Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping Peter Thiel's "Dark Enlightenment" guru gives President Elon Musk a "C-." Warning: Graphic discussion of mass murder and violence thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin-…

"Yarvin is coming to terms with the towering mediocrity of his ideas. His complaints about the CEO-Dictator system prove exactly why it's inferior . . . Despotism is a dog with no name. Once you let it go, you can't call it back." gil duran thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin-…

News: I'm writing a book! "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" will expose how a bizarre tech fascist ideology emerged from San Francisco to threaten the world. Grateful to Caroline Eisenmann and Avid Reader Press for believing in this project.

Trump can’t help remind the world why limiting and then removing his power is the only response to an insatiable lust for domination. New from me in gil duran and George Lakoff's FrameLab Newsletter Trump Has a Plan—Now Democrats May Finally Have One Too theframelab.org/trump-has-a-pl…