February 20, 2011

Taking Down the Harvard President

Lawrence Summers resigned from the presidency of Harvard University on February 22, 2006.  The five-year anniversary of the event gives us an opportunity to look at a device used by progressive-oriented professors and media. "Framing,...

March 27, 2010

Obama and Herbert Croly

President Obama, in his quest for victory on health care, has striven mightily to do everything the progressive believes that the socially conscious leader ought to do. He has fired the zeal of grassroots activists by providing them with a right to b...

August 2, 2009

Obama, Gates and Lakoff: The Perils of 'Framing'

"Framing" refers to the employing of narratives, rather than facts, to describe an event or phenomenon. Its purpose is to contextualize a subject matter in a way that illustrates the validity of something the frame-maker wants to show. The ...