The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides

Kling, Arnold

ISBN 10: 1944424466 / ISBN 13: 9781944424466

Published by Cato Institute, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides
• Publisher: Cato Institute
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944424466
• ISBN 13: 9781944424466
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the “three tribal coalitions” that make up America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, he argued, are “like tribes speaking different languages. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization.”

Now available as a newly revised and expanded edition, Kling’s book could not be any more timely, as Americans—whether as media pundits or conversing at a party—talk past one another with even greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions.The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to how to lower 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 our ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides. 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.