Whose Freedom?

Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "freedom. " Al-Qaeda attacked us because "they hate our freedom. " The U. S. can strike preemptively because "freedom is on the march. " Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. The 2005 presidential inaugural speech was a kind of crescendo: the words "freedom," "free," and "liberty," were used forty-nine times in President Bush's twenty-minute speech. In Whose Freedom. ,. Lakoff surveys the political landscape and offers an essential map of the Republican battle plan that has captured the hearts and minds of Americans-and shows how progressives can fight to reinvigorate this most beloved of American political ideas.