
- 170 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book could not be timelier, as Americans—whether as media pundits or while conversing at a party—talk past one another with ever-greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions.
Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians are like tribes speaking different languages. Political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves only to increase polarization. The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to lowering the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead, it is a book about how we communicate issues and ideologies and how language intended to persuade instead divides.
Arnold Kling offers a way to see through our rhetorical blinders so that we can incorporate new perspectives, nuances, and thinking into the important issues we must together share and resolve.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1. The Nature of Political Arguments
- 2. Applying the Three-Axes Model
- 3. Fast Political Thinking and Simple Moral Frames
- 4. Beyond Your Dominant Heuristic
- 5. Your Mind On Politics: Motivated Reasoning
- 6. Further Thoughts On Human Nature
- 7. The State of Closure: Discrediting the Opponent
- 8. The Ideological Turing Test
- 9. I’m Reasonable, They’re Not
- 10. Using All Three Languages: Examples
- 11. Donald Trump and the Three-Axes Model
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Appendix: Testing the Three-Axes Model
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Libertarianism.org
- Cato Institute