The Three Languages of Politics
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The Three Languages of Politics

Talking Across The Political Divides

  1. 170 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Three Languages of Politics

Talking Across The Political Divides

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

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the Third Edition
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. 1. The Nature of Political Arguments
  8. 2. Applying the Three-Axes Model
  9. 3. Fast Political Thinking and Simple Moral Frames
  10. 4. Beyond Your Dominant Heuristic
  11. 5. Your Mind On Politics: Motivated Reasoning
  12. 6. Further Thoughts On Human Nature
  13. 7. The State of Closure: Discrediting the Opponent
  14. 8. The Ideological Turing Test
  15. 9. I’m Reasonable, They’re Not
  16. 10. Using All Three Languages: Examples
  17. 11. Donald Trump and the Three-Axes Model
  18. Conclusion
  19. Afterword
  20. Appendix: Testing the Three-Axes Model
  21. Further Reading
  22. Notes
  23. Index
  24. About the Author
  25. Libertarianism.org
  26. Cato Institute