(CLP) Contra Sunstein

Here is an approving analysis of President Obama's State of the Union speech by philosopher and cognitive scientist George Lakoff. Interesting in its own right for what it says about how political discourse shapes deep moral narratives, it also constitutes a sophisticated challenge to Sunstein's advocacy of incompletely theorized agreements. Based on a sophisticated account of the way language works, Lakoff suggests that we actually agree on general principles, when they're framed carefully, more than Sunstein suspects.
 http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17808-how-the-state-of-the-union-worked