David "Semi True" Brooks

Language Log 2013-03-20

Summary:

David Brooks, "The Progressive Shift", NYT 3/18/2013:There is a statue outside the Federal Trade Commission of a powerful, rambunctious horse being reined in by an extremely muscular man. This used to be a metaphor for liberalism. The horse was capitalism. The man was government, which was needed sometimes to restrain capitalism’s excesses.I recently claimed thatDavid [...]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4524

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metaphors

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

03/20/2013, 07:36

Date published:

03/20/2013, 06:32