Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff (2004) Recommendation: High Blurb: Don’t Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing’s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains…
Stop Spreading Propaganda
One of the ways some people spread propaganda – and get you to do it for them – is to boldface lie. For example, a few months ago, there was the rumor going around (that many were treating as fact) that “Democrats are proposing full-birth abortion bills.” Well, there’s no such thing as full birth…
Book Review: Pro-Choice and Christian
Pro-Choice and Christian: Reconciling Faith, Politics, and Justice by Kira Schlesinger (2018) Recommendation: High Blurb: Despite the claim by many Christian leaders that the pro-life/antiabortion position is the only faithful response to the debate about reproductive rights, many people of faith find themselves in a murky middle of this supposedly black-and-white issue. Christians who are pro-abortion…