Brendan Nyhan

The Rockridge Institute folds

Surprisingly, The Rockridge Institute, the think tank of George Lakoff, has shut down. I’m not sad to see them go — I’m no fan of Lakoff or Rockridge, which we criticized in the conclusion to All the President’s Spin — but I would have assumed that Lakoff’s status as the (false) prophet of framing would have made it possible to raise money from big liberal donors.